The Comment Channel
Leading article: A chance for peace that must not be spurned
While the tensions between the US and Iran are building, the signals for Syria have become more ambivalent
Leading article: Politics of fear
When Parliament voted to increase the detention period without charge for terrorist suspects, from 14 days to 28, they imposed a dangerous curb on our civil liberties
- Alan Johnson: Children must think differently
- This family's treatment makes me ashamed to be Labour MP
- Terry Leahy: Don't blame us: we can't get rid of all packaging
- Paul Wilkinson: This doesn't mean they have given up on bombing
- Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around
- Cooper Brown: He's Out There
- Claudia Winkleman: Take It From Me
- Lucy Caldwell: The story so far...
- Dominic Lawson: You may not like it, but prison works - and we need to lock up more people, not fewer
- The Sketch: What the world needs now is a green fascist
- Joan Bakewell: A blow to the idea that knowledge is for all to share
- Terence Blacker: Now weed out all those idle and clueless GPs
- Miles Kington: Agent 007 gets in touch with his feminine side