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Leading article: A Cold War replay that speaks of warmer East-West relations
On one of the hottest days of the year, the scene at Vienna airport recalled some of the coldest days of the Cold War. Two planes, one flown in from New York, the other from Moscow, stood side by side on the tarmac. There was an exchange; the planes flew back with new passengers, and there was quiet satisfaction with a deal well done.
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Leading article: Doctoring the National Health Service
Saturday, 10 July 2010
Most people now agree that the Government's decision to ring-fence the National Health Service while forcing almost all other departments to accept 25 per cent cuts was a bad idea.
Leading article: Neutral at last
Saturday, 10 July 2010
If sport is war without the shooting, tomorrow's World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands in South Africa picks up a most venerable conflict.
Leading article: The demeaning of British democracy
Friday, 9 July 2010
The scandal of the non-domiciled peers of the realm continues to grow. Following the example of Lord Laidlaw, Lord McAlpine, Lord Bagri and Baroness Dunn, Baron Foster of Thames Bank has become the latest peer to surrender his seat on the red benches in order to preserve his tax breaks. It also turns out that all these individuals will continue to be able to use their noble titles.
Leading article: Still waiting for freedom
Friday, 9 July 2010
The Cuban regime has a tendency to time displays of clemency to coincide with the arrival of important visitors. In this case the visit of Spain's Foreign minster to Havana has been accompanied with a decision to release more than 50 political prisoners.
Leading article: Coining it
Friday, 9 July 2010
The largest hoard of Roman coins ever found in Britain has been discovered on a farm near Frome by a metal-detecting hobbyist The sheer size of the hoard – weighing 160kg – poses a bit of puzzle to archaeologists because such Roman stashes are normally small and buried to keep them out of the hands of bothersome invaders. But archaeologists say this money must represent the life savings of an entire Roman community. Might we hazard that this was the ancient world's equivalent of a cash machine?
Leading article: An increasingly American war
Thursday, 8 July 2010
The statement delivered to the Commons by the Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, was liberally sprinkled with words such as clarity, continuity and progress.
Leading article: Climate change science is vindicated
Thursday, 8 July 2010
Public scrutiny of science and the scientific method can never be a bad thing, especially when the research involves something as important as climate change. But there must come a time when the results are accepted by all reasonable people. This time has surely come in the case of the "Climategate" emails stolen from the University of East Anglia and posted on the internet last autumn with the evident purpose of discrediting scientists at the centre of the effort to understand climate change.
Leading article: Embassies Inc
Thursday, 8 July 2010
From the moment the summons plopped on to the mat – or, more likely, pinged into their super-secure FCO in-boxes – Their Excellencies could have been in no doubt about the scale of the regime change that had taken place during their absence. Their distress can only have been magnified when they set foot in their respective departure lounges; it was economy class all the way. The reception that awaited them in Blighty was a world away from Ferrero Rocher.
Leading article: A loss that damages government credibility
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
When the Office for Budget Responsibility was established with great fanfare in May it was presented by the Government as a revolution in economic policy-making.
Leading article: Time for action, Mr Obama
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Two steps forward, two steps back. Middle East diplomacy often resembles the world of Lewis Carroll; no matter how fast the Red Queen runs, she stays put. Likewise, no wonder most people were not holding their breath for Barack Obama's White House meeting with Israel's leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday. How can anyone still feel optimism about a peace process that has consumed so much energy and yielded so little? It was clear this time that Mr Netanyahu would get a red carpet. In March, Mr Obama barely put out a welcome mat, because he was so deeply displeased by Israel's humiliation of his Vice-President, Joe Biden, who had recently arrived in Israel just in time to find that the government had signed off a new round of Jewish settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.
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