PETER HITCHENS: The almighty authorities of this country, backed by Parliament, and ultimately by the force of fines, police and prisons, are now forcing their tawdry sexual standards on an entire generation. These policies take us back to an age of great cruelty to women, and of dreadful sexual exploitation of the young of both sexes.
JAMES DELLINGPOLE: We're running a feature on the ten most punchable journalists in Britain. Would you mind if we included you?' asked the editor of a website called The Commentator.
BLACK DOG: Boris Johnson's long-delayed visit to David Cameron at Chequers last month was even more humiliating than it seemed for the Prime Minister.
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: TextS contain embarrassing and informative messages that are being released for the first time.
STEVE DOUGHTY: Treasury Minister David Gauke (pictured) derides those who complain about cuts to Child Benefit, which is worth £1,752 a year for a couple with two children.
JAMES FORSYTH: Hours before the House of Commons vote on the EU budget, David Cameron met his party's most senior backbencher, Graham Brady. By this point, Downing Street knew that the numbers weren't good. A combination of Tory rebels and Labour MPs looked set to defeat the Government.
In Greece, a brave editor is arrested. In Italy, academics are jailed. In Paris, corruption rules and in London, the Leveson Inquiry threatens the press. DOMINIC SANDBROOK compares Europe today to the Thirties.
In 2008, Obama won 43 per cent of the white vote; this time just 37 per cent support him, according to the latest polls, and pundits believe his re-election is in serious jeopardy unless he can increase that figure.
Half of the 53 Tories who rebelled over the EU budget were from the 2010 intake. QUENTIN LETTS hails these 'newbies' for having worked in the real world before entering politics.
ALEX BRUMMER: Had Sir Mervyn King hoped the detailed probes into the Bank of England's handling of the great financial crisis would seal his place in history, he will be a disappointed man today.
Rather than sell Scotland Yard, RICHARD LITTLEJOHN suggests the Met turn it into a theme park-style hotel, drawing on the rich traditions of British policing.
Americans have always taken pride in their political system. Now, says MAX HASTINGS, the constitution created in 1776 is cracking open at the seams.
ANNE McEVOY: German chancellor Angela Merkel and David Cameron are set to meet this week to discuss the EU budget summit and it is the British Prime Minister who could need protection.
Lord Heseltine's report makes STEPHEN GLOVER wonder how a 'pro-business' government can find itself behaving in a way that is so inimical to this country's long-term interests.
Recently, BBC2 Newsnight's veteran presenter has discarded his tie. QUENTIN LETTS says, at 62, Jeremy Paxman is too old for a mid-life crisis.
QUENTIN LETTS: Energy Minister John Hayes gave bien-pensant liberals an attack of the vapours this week by saying he did not think much of wind farms.
DOMINIC LAWSON: John Prescott is one of those rare figures whose character and public persona somehow make him immune to the normal laws of politics.
CHRISTOPHER BOOKER: The significance of yesterday's shock announcement that the Government plans to put a firm limit on the building of any more onshore windfarms is hard to exaggerate.
MARTIN CALLANAN: The UK's growing contribution to the EU budget is an incredibly sore point in British politics.
ABHIJIT PANDYA: The PM must not let the EU spend more of our money on what they think is good for us.
NICK WOOD: After tonight's vote on the EU budget, even David Cameron must accept that the ground has shifted under his feet.
Labour MP quits in expenses scandal
Ex-minister Denis MacShane admits he faked 19 invoices to claim £12,900 in expenses
Heathrow third runaway could 'cost Tories the election'
Boris Johnson warns the issue is 'toxic for the Tory party'
Comet goes bust in massive High Street collapse
Electrical chain leaves 6,500 jobs at risk and customer orders in limbo
School plans to close on Friday afternoons so staff can catch up on paperwork
Parents at Birmingham school furious
Top Whitehall official claims David Cameron's Britain is run by 'Old Etonian clique'
Dame Helen Ghosh says 'old boy's network' excludes women
A 'false promise wrapped in a Union Jack'
Clegg savages Cameron's plan to bring powers back from Brussels
Cameron suffers embarrassing Commons defeat
Tory rebels and Labour MPs unite to demand a tougher stance on the EU's budget
Just half of 15-year-olds live with both parents
Figures show scale of Duncan Smith's task to keep families together
DR ROBERT LEFEVER: The Liberal Democrat health minister, Norman Lamb, wants doctors to draw up a list of patients whom they anticipate will die within one year.
DONAL BLANEY: And yet the power of the monolithic, left-liberal BBC is such that most Britons believe that Obama is a pragmatic moderate while Romney is a doctrinaire extremist.
Former Tory Minister DAVID DAVIS argues Brussels bureaucrats shoulder at least as much of the burden as the member states during a eurozone crisis for which they are largely responsible.
WILLIAM FORBES: The RAF's new 'Reaper' drones are more expensive and less capable manned alternatives.
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