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‘This is no time to take it easy’

Tim Walker

31st October, 2007

At 84, the actor Peter Vaughan says he is entering his prime

David Cameron is about to take up the issue that Margaret Thatcher didn’t dare touch and that defeated Tony Blair at the height of his powers: welfare reform. Fraser Nelson explains how the Conservative leader intends to bring the American welfare revolution to this country, challenge Labour on its home turf and make poverty history in Britain.

The Intelligence2 debate report

Lloyd Evans

31st October, 2007

Capitalism can save the planet (with carbon trading we can solve the climate change crisis without damaging economic growth)

Hezbollah’s media offensive

Lauren Booth

31st October, 2007

A tour of Beirut with the militia’s PR division

What a boring royal blackmail story

Rod Liddle

31st October, 2007

The gay sex and drugs allegations were met with a huge shrug

The nightmare of ‘pre-crime’

Patrick West

31st October, 2007

Police can now act against people who have done nothing

Is the smoking ban good for us?

Tessa Mayes

31st October, 2007

Enforced abstention may not lead to fewer heart attacks

Turkey is right to fight

Norman Stone

24th October, 2007

The PKK must be stopped if Turks and Kurds are to make peace

‘If assassination is the price I pay ...’

Christina Lamb

24th October, 2007

An eyewitness report of the bombing of Benazir Bhutto’s bus

A child of the Troubles

Tim Walker

24th October, 2007

An interview with Patrick Kielty

The ghosts of the past

Fraser Nelson

24th October, 2007

At the Labour party conference in Bournemouth, Tony Blair was airbrushed out of the picture. But this week Blair’s ghost has returned to haunt Gordon Brown with a new biography of the ex-PM, sniping from the disaffected and the evidence of Yates of the Yard on cash for honours. The challenge now for Gordon Brown is to lay out an agenda that allows new Labour to move beyond its past.

Syria shouldn’t be demonised

William Dalrymple

24th October, 2007

The Asad regime is not as wicked as US sources argue

Better always late than selectively late

Harry Mount

24th October, 2007

A defence of the neglected virtue of punctuality

No ‘flash before the crash’

Martyn Gregory

24th October, 2007

At the inquest into the deaths of Diana and Dodi

Living longer, living more miserably

Rod Liddle

24th October, 2007

The ideological dimension to life expectancy

A trap for Eurosceptic Tories

Malcolm Rifkind

24th October, 2007

The Tory Europhobes must be realistic in the debate over the European Treaty.

Listen to Adam Smith

Irwin Stelzer

17th October, 2007

Inheritance tax is one levy that makes good economic sense

Brick Lane’s queen strikes gold

Matthew d'Ancona

17th October, 2007

An interview with Monica Ali

Gordon Brown’s EU treaty nightmare

Fraser Nelson

17th October, 2007

In British politics, the Europe question always comes to embody the problems that a Prime Minister faces. So Gordon Brown will fly back from Lisbon with a treaty that emphasises that he is scared of putting things to the country and that he spins just as much as his predecessor ever did. With the ratification process expected to run for six months, Mr. Brown faces prolonged trouble over this document and maybe even his first large scale Labour rebellion.