Leading Articles
Leading article: Union loyalty to the PM shows signs of fraying
The annual conference of the Trades Union Congress opens in Brighton today with a varied agenda but one that is bound to be overshadowed by continuing speculation about Gordon Brown's leadership. Although unions clearly do not wield anything like the same power within the Labour Party that they did 30 years ago, when they all but terrorised the governments of Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan, they remain a significant force, not least because of their financial donations. Their voice is important when doubts arise about the party leadership.
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Leading article: Sarkozy's small steps in Moscow
Monday, 8 September 2008
Nicolas Sarkozy faces a hard task when he travels to Moscow today in an attempt to bridge East-West differences over the Georgia crisis that have, if anything, widened in recent weeks. A month after the Georgian government launched its ill-fated assault on the breakaway region of South Ossetia, the French President, who holds the EU presidency, has to persuade Russia to abide by the six-point peace plan he brokered. This would involve Russia withdrawing forces from Georgia proper, agreeing to the free movement of monitors in a buffer zone between South Ossetia and Georgia and initiating a framework for security talks between Tblisi and Moscow.
Leading article: Riding for a fall
Monday, 8 September 2008
Few British MPs have ever been expelled from Parliament and sent to prison. Among the handful were a couple of Jacobites and John Wilkes, the radical hero who fled to America to avoid trial for libel in the reign of George III. Will the Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik be the next to join them?
Leading article: Twelve steps to the White House
Sunday, 7 September 2008
Both candidates have compromised their best qualities in their choice of running mate. Which can now square the circle?
Leading article: Amid the tumult, it's the fight for the centre that will count
Saturday, 6 September 2008
In this extraordinary US election year, two extraordinary political journeys are now one step from completion. Last week, Barack Obama became the first African-American to be anointed candidate of a major party. This week, the Republicans for their part embraced a man who made his career by fighting his party establishment. John McCain would be the oldest man ever to enter the White House should he triumph on 4 November. Above all, however, his nomination is proof that, if the Republicans are to win, they must tear up the rule book and start again.
Leading article: Closing time
Saturday, 6 September 2008
Back in 1950 in his essay on the British pub, George Orwell listed his reasons for visiting his favourite local. They included such things as a good fire burning; it must be quiet enough to talk; pub games only in the public bar; barmaid knows most customers by name; besides cigarettes and pipe tobacco, the pub sells stamps and aspirin; draught stout on tap; beer served in glass or pewter tankards.
Leading article: This is not a plot. It is a groundswell of discontent
Friday, 5 September 2008
The PM's allies cannot easily dismiss Mr Clarke's intervention
Leading article: The unshattered glass ceiling
Friday, 5 September 2008
The decline in the number of women in top jobs in Britain is alarming. Last year, slow progress on equality in the workplace actually went into reverse in half of the sectors surveyed. Today we have fewer female MPs, cabinet ministers, senior police officers, judges and NHS executives than we did even a year ago.
Leading article: Musical chairs
Friday, 5 September 2008
Some might say that the researchers of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have come up with an explanation of the blindingly obvious in their study that shows music taste is linked to personality type.
Leading article: A Scottish example to the United Kingdon
Thursday, 4 September 2008
Alex Salmond's legislative programme will be carefully watched
Leading article: The football bubble
Thursday, 4 September 2008
To say that fans of top-level English football are living through exciting times would be an understatement. The acquisition of Manchester City this week by a consortium from Abu Dhabi has turned an under-achieving club into one with ambitions to be the biggest in the world. It is the latest, and most spectacular, episode in the transformation of the Premier League into a playground for super-rich investors.
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