Commentators
The Third Leader: This life
Published: 26 January 2007
Casting an expert eye over the news agenda, I realise that what you will most be in need of today is some specialised guidance on the buzz, straight from Davos, surrounding Second Life, the increasingly popular virtual world.
Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around
Published: 25 January 2007
There comes a time in every relationship when a person realises that they need space. Or, in my case, storage space. In fact, a corner of a drawer in his apartment would do. If I'm going to spend time with Paul on a regular basis, it would be fantastic not to have to wake up and stagger home looking like a dishevelled hedgehog.
Cooper Brown: He's Out There
Published: 25 January 2007
Paddy Ashdown: 'Troops home by Christmas' is not an option
Published: 25 January 2007
The Third Leader: Lucky country
Published: 25 January 2007
Tomorrow, as many of you will know, is Australia Day. Others, after recent events, might not care to be reminded. But it seems only right to pay tribute to the Lucky Country, particularly as all English cricket enthusiasts will agree that if we'd had a little bit of luck ourselves, the result could have been very different.
Sami Abdel-Shafi: A referendum could heal the Palestinian rift
Published: 24 January 2007
Claudia Winkleman: Take It From Me
Published: 24 January 2007
The Third Leader: Not so glittering prizes
Published: 24 January 2007
While in this space we endeavour to maintain our signature message of sunny optimism and undimmed hope, we also believe that we should seek to warn readers against the vagaries of fate, the malign machinations of the powerful and partial, and, to put it theatrically, the sheer bloody unfairness of life.
Helena Kennedy: Hand over some power to the people
Published: 23 January 2007
Dr Anna Watson: Waste we don't see is other half of story
Published: 23 January 2007
I suspect I am not alone in having a packaging pet hate - whether it is potatoes in plastic trays or cellophane-wrapped bananas. Yet the packaging foisted on the unsuspecting shopper is only half the story. The waste we don't see - huge quantities of food that doesn't make it onto the shelves and the wrapping our food is delivered to the store in - is the other half. Much of this waste ends up in landfill or is burnt in incinerators. That not only squanders valuable resources but also releases potent gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, into the atmosphere.
Lucy Caldwell: The story so far
Published: 23 January 2007
After years of anguish, I've decided on my Desert Island read - the one book you're allowed besides the Bible and Shakespeare. I used to wonder if I'd take a compendium of fairy tales, or an omnibus edition of Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series - my most treasured childhood books. Or some poetry: Yeats, or W S Graham, who wrote my two best-loved poems; or one of my current favourites, Mimi Khalvati.
The Third Leader: Washed up
Published: 23 January 2007
Watch the wall, my darling, while the gentlemen go by! Enough of synthetic entertainment and its attendant furores: time for a bit of good old-fashioned British wrecking and looting.
John Lichfield: Our Man in Paris
Published: 22 January 2007
Charles Nevin: End of the union will mean tears at teatime
Published: 22 January 2007
Thus far, I have noticed, the debate on the merits of the 300-year-old union between England and Scotland has been conducted in an admirably serious and restrained fashion, with, on the whole, a high-minded avoidance of ad hominem, or, indeed, ad patriam, abuse.
Dylan Jones: How much longer for the winter collection?
Published: 22 January 2007
As the international fashion industry tucked into its high-fibre breakfast in Milan last Wednesday, in the Bulgari, the Hyatt, the Four Seasons and the Principe, all its attendant members would have opened their free copy of the International Herald Tribune (that comes in its own fantastically environmentally unfriendly plastic bag), perhaps to skim Suzy Menkes' reviews of the autumn/winter 2007 menswear collections, or to read another columnist who thinks that Nicolas Sarkozy has gone all soft and soggy in the centre.
Rebecca Tyrrel: Days Like Those
Published: 22 January 2007
Rupert Cornwell: She's in, but Democrats can't help worrying she won't win
Published: 21 January 2007
Geoffrey Lean: Is this why Blair is staying on?
Published: 21 January 2007
Tim Lott: The witches of Endemol
Published: 21 January 2007
Wersha Bharadwa: I feel for Shilpa, but she doesn't speak for British Indians like me
Published: 21 January 2007
Joanna Briscoe: All she wants is a his'n'her loo...
Published: 21 January 2007
Michael Bywater: Welcome back. Sorry we ruined the planet
Published: 21 January 2007
Robert Gifford: Cycling safety must be moved into the fast lane
Published: 20 January 2007
In 2005, 148 cyclists were killed and 16,413 were injured in Great Britain. It was the second year running in which deaths rose.
Jemima Lewis: Leave your ego behind in the office
Published: 20 January 2007
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