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Chris Blackhurst
Thursday 22 January




Freedom for Kingston! The time has come to let our councils break away from Whitehall



'I don't think it’s going to work because the Government won't let it,' said a councillor

 












Donald Macintyre
Thursday 22 January




Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Scotland's human panda David Mundell loses on pedantry



Rarely has London felt so provincial – Thessaloniki to Edinburgh’s Athens of the North. While the.....

 












Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
Thursday 22 January




Greece's election marks the start of a momentous year



A win for Syriza would bring the first resolutely anti-austerity party to power in the EU

 













Ziauddin Sardar
Wednesday 21 January




Islamic history is full of free thinkers - but recent attempts to suppress critical thought are verging on the absurd



The West's best hope of dealing with the rise of Islamic extremism is to challenge the doctrines manufactured by religious scholars past and present, argues Ziauddin Sardar

 







Robert Fisk
Wednesday 21 January




Yemen conflict: Old hand at work in the country's bloody civil war



The US now appears anxious to crush the Houthi rebels and their Sunni al-Qaeda enemies - and the Saudis would have it no other way, reports Robert Fisk

 












Hamish McRae
Tuesday 20 January




Growth makes the rich richer - but then it also makes all of us richer



Redistributive action can help at the margin, but it won't fix the problem without growth

 







Robert Fisk
Tuesday 20 January




Israel's attack on Hezbollah is a case of shoot first, ask questions later



An Iranian general and six Hezbollah officers have been wiped out by helicopters near the Syrian city of Quneitra. But what were they doing there?

 












Katy Guest
Sunday 18 January




Channel 4's diversity quotas read like a comedy script



The image of Clare Balding and Ade Adepitan presumably gets four ticks for one photo

 













Peter Stanford
Sunday 18 January




The Prime Minister cannot just dismiss the Church of England's attack on his government with a soundbite



David Cameron may not welcome the damning Anglican report on the state of the nation, but it is written from the blighted parishes of the frontline

 







Patrick Cockburn
Sunday 18 January




If all right-thinking people are united against terrorism, where are the 'Je suis Nigeria' banners?



Al-Qaeda-type jihadis killed 2,000 people in a few days, which the world largely ignored

 













Jane Merrick
Sunday 18 January




On the leadership beat: Introducing Westminster's born drummers



In politics, as in music, there are some who are great at leading the band, and others who are better suited to the background

 













Simmy Richman
Sunday 18 January




Modern art? It's daylight robbery



Though it’s only open to British artists, and they don’t announce the shortlist until May, they m.....

 













Ellen E Jones
Sunday 18 January




Getting a name wrong is just plain rude, Dr Starkey



What it really says is: 'I do not believe the bearer is important enough to justify my effort'

 













DJ Taylor
Sunday 18 January




DJ Taylor: Punk icon Johnny Wolverine's fortunes have taken a turn for the better recently



Once or twice a year, usually among the CD racks at the local branch of HMV, somebody – invariabl.....

 












Robert Epstein
Sunday 18 January




Middle Class Problems: Should I question the bill or will the waiter think we're pulling a fast one?



Well, that was nice, wasn't it? Does anyone want coffee? No? Just the bill then, please.

 












Dom Joly
Sunday 18 January




Castrating a pig would be simple, you'd think, but Wilbur is one powerful animal



He has the libido of a horny teenager and will have his wicked way with the Aga, boots, cushions, chairs, sofas and the washing machine

 













DJ Taylor
Sunday 18 January




Golden Globes 2015: What would Greta Garbo have made of it? Modern Hollywood needs more of her mystique



The glamour of yesteryear was in short supply at last week's ceremony. Maybe we know too much about the stars nowadays

 







Joan Smith
Sunday 18 January




How can a girl of 16 'groom' a teacher?



The judge who spared a deputy head from jail after he had sex with a pupil condoned the male fantasy eulogised in 'Lolita'

 












Richard Harries
Sunday 18 January




Paris attacks: Jonathan Swift had a point about religion. Did Charlie Hebdo?



There is no justification for deliberately belittling any community that already feels marginalised and vulnerable, as does the Muslim community in France

 















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Give Chilcot a break – he’s probably still working on his inquiry into the Battle of Hastings









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Mass prescription of statins ‘will widen social inequalities’	


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Coalition's tax and benefits changes hit low income families harder than any other group	


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