Commentators

Dominic Lawson: These MPs only really care about one thing... their jobs

The public could be forgiven for seeing the fight as having nothing at all to do with their own lives

Inside Commentators

Steve Richards: Gordon Brown is down (but not out)

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

The Labour Party is divided over its leader – but a contest could play into the hands of the Tories

Adrian Hamilton: A bitter power struggle for the soul of democracy

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Ignore the debate about Islam and the West. If the elected Turkish government loses, we are all victims

Boyd Tonkin: 'Even Her Majesty loves Canada – its tourist board knows where to find the next face of its campaign'

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Tales of the city

Simon Calder: One British tourist is murdered every week

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

The murder rate for British tourists abroad runs at about one a week, making it one of the most significant causes of death – though well behind road accidents and drownings. Many of the victims of homicide abroad are longer-term residents or on visits to relatives. The statistics show that only a handful of tourists are killed by criminals (or, more rarely, terrorists) in the average year.

Daniel Howden: The world's most important political project

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

The project to create a country that is Muslim, democratic, secular, financially stable and connects the Europe Union with the Middle East makes Turkey possibly the most important political experiment in the world today. And it is on the brink of collapse.

Ellie Levenson: British men and the art of seduction

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Macmillan are going to publish Love Letters of Great Men, an invention by the makers of the film version of Sex and the City which, until now, didn't exist. The book, which Carrie reads while in bed with her lover Mr Big, and which he copies and sends in emails in order to woo her back after leaving her standing at the altar, includes letters by Pliny, Henry VIII, Mozart and Napoleon. Leaving aside the question of whether Henry VIII, divorced from two wives and murderer of two more, should be feted as an example of how to woo a woman, I am not convinced that sending love letters is the way to a woman's heart.

Susie Rushton: Katie's too good for polo

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Urban Notebook: The naked truth about these snobs

John Laughland: International justice is power without responsibility

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Many people welcome the recent growth in the power of international criminal tribunals. However, their track record should give cause for extreme concern about the way that this new supranational power will be wielded.

Jeremy Laurance: Good news, but think twice before popping pills

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

They are the biggest-selling drugs in the world – and with reason. In the UK, cardiovascular disease causes more than one in three deaths – 120,000 mortalities a year. Statins have the capacity to cut that toll by a third. Hence their billing as the "miracle drugs" of the 21st century.