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Bloody hypocrisy
John Laughland says Kill Bill is cheesy and evil, and wonders why it is tolerated when depictions of real violence are censored
Britain first
Niall Ferguson says that Tony Blair and George W. Bush are perfect partners — Christian soldiers armed with Bibles and bazookas — but Britain now has more in common with Europe than with the United States
The terror, the terror
Iraq is becoming daily more chaotic and murderous, says Richard Beeston. DVDs of beheadings are selling in their thousands. Westerners are hated and live in constant fear
Aids denial costs lives
Three experts in Aids research, Tony Barnett, Gwyn Prins and Alan Whiteside, say that Rian Malan has placed lives in danger with his sceptical approach to the epidemic
Let’s bring back stigma and shame
Melanie Phillips says that adultery undermines liberal democracy, but the recent Turkish proposal to outlaw it was fatuous (and fascistic)
The incoming sea of faith
Alister McGrath says that atheism has been discredited by the collapse of communism and the postmodern need for tolerance
Litigation, litigation, litigation
Margaret Lenton, headmistress of a leading grammar school, says that the time and money she wastes on legal action would be far better spent on teaching
What’s that on your head?
TV presenter Steve McDonnell was going bald. He tried to improve matters. He did not succeed
Property Hungary
A place on the Danube
Property English Heritage
Hit list
Property Hot property
Looking out at you smugly from the pages of Get a Lifestyle, You Sad, Unstylish Person are lofters Rajiv and…
Why we must not appease the Kremlin
Russia’s continuing brutality in Chechnya is the root cause of the Beslan massacre. So why does Blair grovel to Putin? The answer, says Simon Heffer, is oil
We still don’t get it
Mark Steyn says that three years after 9/11 the West remains in denial over Islamic terrorism
Lilla’s war with China
Frances Osborne on how her great-grandmother fought Beijing for 30 years and finally won, aged 100
A free market in religion
If Christianity is not the one true religion, why be a Christian? Why not be a Buddhist? Mary Wakefield puts the question to Keith Ward, the liberal theologian
Way to go, Dubya
Boris Johnson, at the Republican convention, says that Bush’s conservative credentials are not always convincing but his optimism is unfailingly inspiring
Why Europe must have the Bomb
Stephen Haseler on what the EU must do if it is to remain secure when the American troops have gone home
Regional forecast
Martin Vander Weyer says that Labour is introducing regional government by stealth
New life in a land of death
Radek Sikorski sees the transformation one warlord has brought to a part of Afghanistan devastated by the Soviets in 1987
High crimes and misdemeanours
All the evidence shows that the Prime Minister misled Parliament and the people on the eve of the Iraq war. Now, as Peter Oborne reveals, a group of MPs are determined to impeach him
Poster killer
Che Guevara, subject of a new film, is likely to remain a cult figure. But, says Daniel Wolf, the man was a thug and a fool, and he helped ruin Cuba
Let’s go nuclear
Rod Liddle says the answer to our energy needs is obvious: cheap and reliable nuclear power. But before we can embrace a sane future we have to overcome the Cold War superstitions of the Green Left
Victim nation
The compensation culture costs Britain £10 billion a year. David Davis blames the human rights industry
American food sucks
Ella Windsor says that if you don’t like pigging out, you won’t much enjoy eating in the US, where The Cheesecake Factory serves portions big enough to kill an ox
Scotland’s Italian connection
John McEwen applauds the ‘Age of Titian’ in Edinburgh, and other Festival treats
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