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Columnists A - L

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Spare me from Whitehall's well-being committee

Published: 08 January 2007

The pursuit of happiness is itself an invitation to perpetual unhappiness

Johann Hari: The real reason there are more rats than ever

Published: 08 January 2007

The right-wing press has tried bizarrely to blame environmentalists for the rise

Bruce Anderson: A conviction based on fear, not rationality

Published: 08 January 2007

No one listening to the defendant was in a position to bomb the USA or Denmark

Miles Kington: Ah, if only Wilmina were a name ...

Published: 08 January 2007

I spotted that 'inertia' could also be pronounced 'in Ayrshire', and, using that as a germ, I produced an interesting little verse

Dom Joly: A new year, no resolutions

Published: 07 January 2007

January... what a depressing month. The New Year's started, Christmas is over. It's time for some form of restraint. I've recently had to watch myself on television and have decided that the svelte young man that exists in my mind is not actually the same person who appears on the box claiming to be "Dom Joly".

Howard Jacobson: Even the wicked can show some dignity, no matter how much we try to deprive them of it

Published: 06 January 2007

It was written across Saddam's face when he declined the black hood and accepted the noose

Andrew Grice: The Week in Politics

Published: 06 January 2007

Love them or hate them, parties need state funding

David Lister: The Week in Arts

Published: 06 January 2007

Some things are better left untouched

Dominic Lawson: Before you rush to condemn the death penalty, remember the victims' families

Published: 05 January 2007

This might seem irrelevant to an English court, but in the Muslim world it is integral to criminal justice

Mary Dejevsky: The NHS doesn't have to be in such turmoil

Published: 05 January 2007

In corridors and wards, high-tech machinery is left anyhow. Trolleys and linen are piled against walls

Terence Blacker: Something wholesome to feel patriotic about

Published: 05 January 2007

Love of country can be expressed in the butcher's, the greengrocer's, the kitchen

Tracey Emin: My Life In A Column

Published: 05 January 2007

'I woke up on New Year's Day to the distant sound of bagpipes and the chants of the Masai'

Joan Bakewell: Democracy is on a collision course with technology

Published: 05 January 2007

How would people vote if we had electronic polls? Ban immigrants? Pull out of Europe?

Miles Kington: There's nothing like a good old-fashioned argument

Published: 05 January 2007

When they agree that a book is a damned good read, it is mildly interesting, but when they disagree, it is much more interesting

Adrian Hamilton: Never since the war have political leaders been so lacking in foreign experience

Published: 04 January 2007

The real concern about Brown, as Cameron, is their lack of any properly developed world view

Johann Hari: The intriguing tale of the gay sheep

Published: 04 January 2007

This is the first hard evidence of biological differences between gay and straight mammals

Miles Kington: Dental problems at J Clayhanger & Sons...

Published: 04 January 2007

I know a bit about dentists. I know that they talk a lot because the patient can't. I know that they feel looked down on by doctors

Mary Dejevsky: Let us join the Slovenians and celebrate the astonishing success of the euro

Published: 03 January 2007

The value of euro notes in circulation has now passed the value of dollar notes in circulation

Terence Blacker: Politicians, prostitutes and scruffy morality

Published: 03 January 2007

That old stand-by of British life, class prejudice, has made a terrific start to the new year, with a couple of obituaries that have positively crackled with snobbery. Marmaduke Hussey - "Duke" as he liked to be known (in his famous letters, Henry Root addressed him as "Your Grace") - received a pasting from one obituarist for being less of a toff than he claimed. The young Duke's school fees at Rugby, it was reported with some shock, had been paid by the public purse.

Alex James: The Great Escape

Published: 03 January 2007

When Mona, our German au pair, arrived in the summer, I asked her if there was anything she'd like to do while she was here. She wanted to see Robbie Williams in concert and eat at Jamie Oliver's restaurant, but most of allshe wanted to see Shakespeare performed in his own country.

Miles Kington: Cricket: a thrilling game of sudden death...

Published: 03 January 2007

'For me, the most beautiful thing about cricket is the crack of bat on ball, which sounds like a rifle shot. Crack! Bang! You are dead!'

Philip Hensher: A cautionary tale of today's customer service

Published: 02 January 2007

One talks to sympathetic voices who can see how ridiculous the whole thing has become

Dominic Lawson: No one, no one at all, can foretell the future

Published: 02 January 2007

Predictions under each and every star sign are equally applicable to all readers

Miles Kington: More predictions from Old Mother Kington's Almanack

Published: 02 January 2007

A new West End musical is entitled Heathrow!. There is chaos on opening night, as the audience is searched for shampoos, gels and pointy things

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The comfort of watch the deaths of your oppressors

Published: 01 January 2007

Now it is easier to understand those who thrilled to Al Jazeera broadcasts of videoed beheadings
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