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Leading article: The true value of our creative industries
Mr Blair - and his likely successor, Gordon Brown - must demonstrate that the arts are not merely some desirable, but essentially optional, aspect of modern Britain. Both must make it clear that the arts constitute the very life-blood of a civilised nation.
Leading article: Deadly negligence
Large companies often delegate safety decisions to managers low down the hierarchy, making it very hard to prove a line of accountability. But we cannot allow this to be used as defence for deadly negligence.
- Michael Cockerell: Blair and his legacy
- Tom Porteous: The refugees fleeing Iraq are our responsibility
- The Third Leader: Graven comics
- Steve Bloomfield: Caught in a geopolitical flashpoint
- Stephen Bayley: 'To buy it or drink it is to declare membership of a fashionable group'
- Charles Nevin: We're too damned polite these days
- Ali Allawi: The Occupation of Iraq
- Dylan Jones: Mumbai, through the eyes of a cabbie
- Dominic Lawson: Welfare reform needs sticks and carrots
- Philip Hensher: Private schooling is often a worthless expenditure
- Miles Kington: Moral tales of phone calls and blackened sausages
- The Sketch: Listening to Hutton is hard work and of little benefit
- Johann Hari: The Battle of Brighton is only the beginning - the prize is better education for all our kids
- Thomas Sutcliffe: Cultural diplomacy is simply an oxymoron
- Steve Richards: Pay heed to the Lib Dem leader's attack on Cameron. It may come to mean a great deal
- Andreas Whittam Smith: A warning all right, but not like the 1930s
- John Rentoul: Brown will make Blair's sofa government look like a model of open accountability
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