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Leading article: Ten years on, the benefits of decoding the human genome still lie ahead
It is hard now to rekindle the universal sense of excitement generated by the decoding of the human genome.
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Leading article: A question of influence, not aesthetics
Saturday, 26 June 2010
The case of the Prince and the property developer has reached its conclusion. The development of Chelsea Barracks was shelved last year after Prince Charles put pressure on the Qatari royal family, one of the scheme's investors, over the proposed architectural design.
Leading article: Team of rivals
Saturday, 26 June 2010
Ah yes, England vs Germany. The old football rivalry continues in the second round of the World Cup in South Africa tomorrow.
Leading article: There is still a common global interest
Friday, 25 June 2010
World leaders meet in Canada today for their back-to-back G8 and G20 summits in fractious mood.
Leading article: The age of change
Friday, 25 June 2010
It is a palpable nonsense that an individual is fit to work on a Friday but unfit the following Monday because they have had their 65th birthday inbetween. Plans by the Government to raise the age at which we retire rightly acknowledge the changing reality of the way we work.
Leading article: So long
Friday, 25 June 2010
There is a website called thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/. It's the final part that's the giveaway. At long last. It's a fairly transparent attempt at unnecessary elongation. It just becomes a gag, and a pretty dire one at that.
Leading article: The limits of Mr Osborne's fairness
Thursday, 24 June 2010
Every Budget has a Day Two, once the number-crunchers have been at work, and George Osborne's emergency Budget is no exception.
Leading article: A welcome breakdown
Thursday, 24 June 2010
Under normal circumstances, the breakdown of an international meeting would be a cause for disappointment; but not in the case of the International Whaling Commission. After two days of discussions in Morocco, the gathering has been brought to an end because the delegates of 88 nations were unable to reach agreement. The draft deal under discussion would have lifted the 24-year-old ban on commercial whaling. Iceland, Japan and Norway would have been granted an annual catch quota.
Leading article: To be continued
Thursday, 24 June 2010
The apocalypse has been postponed. England managed to beat Slovenia in their final World Cup group game in South Africa yesterday, thus ensuring that they will progress to the knock-out stages of the competition.
Leading article: George Osborne's economic gamble
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
George Osborne might be the youngest Chancellor of the Exchequer in more than a century, but there was nothing callow about the delivery of his emergency Budget yesterday. It was a confident performance. And the speech itself was clear and well structured. So much for the style; what of the substance?
Leading article: A token of greater disarray
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Yesterday we argued that political leaders in the United States and Britain needed to lower public expectations of what can be achieved in Afghanistan. It was time, we said, for some realism. How soon that realism will be forthcoming, however, must already be in doubt, as serious questions are raised, not just about the purpose of the mission, but more immediately about the quality of leadership.
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It confirmed my belief that every hotel in England was a Fawlty Towers at heart.
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Both leaders give an impression to the voters that they are obsessed with cuts.
• Christina Patterson: Game, set and match to the posh PR boys
This is the calm before a very, very big storm. And that's even without the Battle of Bloemfontein tomorrow.
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1Leading article: A question of influence, not aesthetics
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