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Leading article: A youthful new leader, but the same old challenges
Compared with the previous contest for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats, and even the recent imbroglio for deputy leader of the Labour Party, the latest race to lead the Lib Dems failed to catch alight
Leading article: Castro prepares to lower the curtain
Cubans are accustomed to being informed of their leader Fidel Castro's thoughts - usually in the form of long-winded speeches or rambling articles
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- Steve Richards: Now that he is leader, Clegg cannot afford to trip up in the ways he did as a candidate
- Hamish McRae: The real problem isn't the banking crisis
- Mark Steel: Why can't we stop flying when it's such torture?
- Terence Blacker: Well, if you will yield to preconceptions...
- The Sketch: Out with the old and in with the... old
- Peter Hewitt: We did not take this decision lightly
- Alex James: The Great Escape
- Claudia Winkleman: Take It From Me
- Miles Kington: Why the midwinter solstice is a time to be saturnine
- John Walsh: Tales of the City
- Miles Kington: Why not go Christmas shopping for some handy foreign words?
- Deborah Ross: The Non-Domestic Goddess at Christmas
- Rebecca Tyrrel: Days Like Those
- Miles Kington: Maybe a couple of straight guys can do justice to Wilde
- Dom Joly: One look at the Take That crowd and I fled to a bomb site
- Editor-At-Large: The people, not their MPs, have improved transport at a stroke
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