Gordon Brown is to propose an initiative that he might represent as the extension of culture throughout society. But what Mr. Brown would define as culture is not how Simon Heffer would deploy the term.

Debt interest is now our fourth biggest departmental spending programme. This is a very serious deterioration in the public finances, writes Michael Fallon.

Jan Moir looks at the ugly side of modern sport. From human rights and the Beijing Olympics, to athletes who use enough hormones to fell a herd of steers.

As Kosovo looks likely to soon come under UN supervision, Thomas Harding finds a city where a spiked mountain capped by an old Serb castle acts as a redoubt to the province's dispossessed and fearful Serbs.

Boys behave badly because they fancy it, argues Rowan Pelling, whereas girls aim to skewer their parents on the knife-edge of their own growing pains and insecurity.

As Westminster-based Labour figures make mincemeat of their Holyrood-based colleagues' hopes of much more devolution, Alan Cochrane says the way they are doing it has taken on a brutal edge.

Spending its time itching to ban people from doing things, the Government now wants to ban people from the internet who download pirated material, says Shane Richmond.

In an emotional interview with Oliver Pritchett, Cupid threatened to pull out of Britain if Alistair Darling goes ahead with his plans to impose a levy on non-doms.

Although the Foreign Secretary's keystone statement on the future direction of the Government's foreign policy evaded the issue of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, its wider message is well-judged.

Alistair Darling's career has been built on being a safe pair of hands. At the Treasury, he is proving alarmingly maladroit.

We are of the opinion that bigamy is an odd crime to commit, when a quickie divorce would avoid any risk of imprisonment.