Leading Articles

Leading Article: A proxy war for the provinces of the south

Published: 21 August 2007

The killing early yesterday of the governor of Iraq's Muthanna province offers the latest proof that, however bad the situation in Iraq might appear to be, it can, and probably will, deteriorate.

Leading Article: Anarchy in the UK? Hardly...

Published: 21 August 2007

Refreshed by his holiday and concerned to address his party's flagging ratings, David Cameron was playing at once soft man and hard man yesterday.

Leading Article: The flight from truth about climate change

Published: 20 August 2007

The scuffles that broke out yesterday between police and protestors in the vicinity of Heathrow airport had been on the cards since this particular climate-change demonstration was first mooted.

Leading Article: Less than a model democracy

Published: 20 August 2007

Kazakhstan, which suddenly had independence thrust upon it in 1991, has tended to enjoy a more positive image than some of its former Soviet Central Asian neighbours.

Leading article: The generals have spoken, Mr Brown

Published: 19 August 2007

This paper has done more than any other to highlight the sacrifices being made by our troops in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. For us, these are not forgotten wars. We did not and do not support the invasion of Iraq, flawed in its justification and calamitous in its outcome, but we did accept the need for intervention in Afghanistan to root out the Taliban harbouring al-Qa'ida

Leading Article: A report weighed down with too much Thatcherite baggage

Published: 18 August 2007

The tail end of the summer holidays, with the stock markets of the world in turmoil, hardly seemed the most opportune time for the Conservative Party to launch its latest policy document - still less a policy paper on economic policy.

Leading Article: When it's all in the mind

Published: 18 August 2007

Professor Gordon Parker has provoked something of a stir with his argument, set out in the British Medical Journal, that too many people are being diagnosed with depression.

Leading article: Some lessons in how to bridge the class divide

Published: 17 August 2007

Viewed from the perspective of overall performance, this year's A-level results were the best on record

Leading article: Dodgy loans, banks and bail-outs

Published: 17 August 2007

Across the world, the financial trading screens turned red again yesterday as stock markets from Wall Street to Tokyo took a hammering

Leading article: A widening gap that is a badge of dishonour

Published: 16 August 2007

When this year's A-level results are published today, it is a fair bet that they will be greeted with the same mixture of rejoicing and criticism

Leading article: Our national drinking problem

Published: 16 August 2007

Peter Fahy, the Chief Constable of Cheshire police, spoke some sense this week when he condemned the influence of alcohol on British society

Leading article: Mr Salmond and his subtle cause of independence

Published: 15 August 2007

Alex Salmond's first 100 days as Scottish First Minister have been a revelation. The leader of the SNP had a reputation for being an eloquent maverick and a skilful populist. But no one knew how he would respond to the pressures of government

Leading article: A striking lack of clarity

Published: 15 August 2007

As with the influx of foreign players into English football, the proliferation of overseas owners of clubs should be no cause for alarm

Leading Article: Politicians must accept the reality on the ground

Published: 14 August 2007

Afghanistan is fast becoming one of the gravest crises facing the new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. The Taliban are resorting to the tactics of Iraqi insurgents, launching suicide bombings in Kabul and ambushing foreign troop convoys with roadside explosives.

Leading Article: The science of failure

Published: 14 August 2007

The confederation of British Industry called for emergency action yesterday to save the sciences. It wants undergraduates to be offered £1,000-a-year bonuses by the state to study sciences and engineering at universities.

Leading Article: A good plan scuppered by political cowardice

Published: 13 August 2007

A-level grades will be released on Thursday, and are expected to show a record pass rate. Prepare for the usual debate over whether standards are falling. But a more significant question is: should the exam even exist any more?

Leading Article: Pressure from all sides

Published: 13 August 2007

The Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf, adopted the clothes of progressive moderation when he spoke at the close of an Afghan-Pakistani tribal conference in Kabul yesterday.

Leading article: A tragedy tarred with innuendo

Published: 12 August 2007

Yesterday marked the 100th day since the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. This particular temporal milestone was marked by a renewed coverage of the case in the British press, but in terms of real progress in the investigation of the child's whereabouts and the cause of her disappearance, there has been no substantive advance since the week, the month or the 50th day since it happened

Leading Article: Low inflation, cheap money and endless growth never added up

Published: 11 August 2007

Stock markets indices are falling across the world. Hedge funds have collapsed. No one wants to lend to the buccaneers of the private equity industry any more.

Leading Article: A comical own goal

Published: 11 August 2007

Protectionism in any industry tends to be a bad idea. And in club football, a branch of the entertainment industry, it sounds rather ludicrous.

Leading article: A simplistic message, a complex problem

Published: 10 August 2007

The inquest into the shooting of the Manchester schoolboy Jessie James has thrown the spotlight once again on to Britain's inner-city gang culture

Leading article: Death and denial

Published: 10 August 2007

In many ways, Thabo Mbeki has been a successful leader of South Africa since he took over from Nelson Mandela in 1999

Leading article: A foolish policy driven by vested interests

Published: 09 August 2007

From its shrill complaints of persecution, one might have assumed that the UK airports operator, BAA, was having a hard time of it. But far from it

Leading article: Hype and hysteria

Published: 09 August 2007

More than three months after she went missing in a Portuguese holiday resort, the fate of Madeleine McCann continues to be a matter of public interest

Leading article: A stain that will not be wiped away so easily

Published: 08 August 2007

The written request by the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, to his American counterpart, Condoleezza Rice, for the release of five UK residents being held in Guantanamo Bay constitutes a reversal of one of the more cowardly and dishonourable stances of Tony Blair's government

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