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Potential suicide bombers among British Muslims are getting most of their news from Asian satellite TV, says Patrick Sookhdeo. The West is in danger of losing a crucial propaganda war

According to international polls, Britain is regarded with contempt but, says Rod Liddle, we attract more refugees than any other Western country

The old lefty Neil Kinnock backs Britain, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. But Chris Patten is batting for France.

Paul Robinson says we can learn a lot about decency and independence from plucky Canada

Michael Wigan says that British farmers and consumers would be better off – and better fed†– if we left the CAP

Opium production in Afghanistan is booming: Peter Oborne and Lucy Morgan Edwards on how the government has failed to wipe out the trade

Among privately sponsored painting prizes figurative art is dominant. Laura Gascoigne reports

John Major says Tony Blair cannot accept the European constitution in anything like its current form, and demands a referendum on the matter

Peter Oborne on the refusal of Anglican and Catholic bishops to denounce the tyranny in Zimbabwe

David Lovibond discovers, post-50, that no amount of multi-vitamins or gym visits will put off the onset of 'sordid infirmity'

am Kiley describes the terrifying experience of being captured by Baathists bent on revenge

Andrew Lambirth looks at why art schools are producing so many conceptual artists

Clare Short's resignation has finally shattered the party created by Tony Blair, says Peter Oborne. The mood is sullen and rebellious, and the Prime Minister is looking increasingly like a loser

Andrew Gimson prophesies that Poland will be an important EU ally of Britain

Simon Nixon on a first-class mystery: what made the Conservatives save Blair's premiership and support an unpopular war?

Mark Palmer told the police who had stolen his Vespa and where they had taken it. He was greeted with complete apathy

Neil Clark says that the Home Secretary is wrong about many things, but not about life-imprisonment for murderers

Emma Williams says good and conscientious Israelis live in denial of what is being done to the Palestinians

Melanie Phillips says the Arabs don't want a separate Palestinian state: they want the end of Israel

Owen Matthews on the enigmatic results of the hunt for weapons of mass destruction. Have they all been looted?

Mark Glazebrook on how the British Council's cultural activities still give good value for money

Our artistic heritage is in danger of disappearing abroad

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