Beware the Tyrant Voter

Peter Preston: As the vagaries of TV’s Strictly Come Dancing show, there is no way to second-guess the public.
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Our Tendency to Persecute Others is As Alive Today As in Medieval Times

Madeleine Bunting: The cultural fascination with the middle ages rarely acknowledges that power is still won and abused in the same way.
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Posted in World News No Comments 17.12.2007 on 01:12.

All the Troubles in the World

Leader: Victory has been declared before in Iraq. Notoriously, George Bush landed on the deck of an aircraft carrier six weeks after the opening air strike on Baghdad and announced the end of major combat operations
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We’ve Been Suckered Again By the Us. So Far the Bali Deal is Worse Than Kyoto

George Monbiot: America will keep on wrecking climate talks as long as those with vested interests in oil and gas fund its political system.
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Brown’s Parsimony With the Police is a Dangerous Game

Martin Kettle: When it comes to adjudicating public pay, the prime minister acts like the chancellor he was, not the leader he is
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Posted in World News No Comments 15.12.2007 on 01:12.

Twisting the Pope’s Words on Climate Change

Ben Goldacre: ‘The Pope condemns the climate change prophets of doom,’ roared the headline on Thursday. Basically, if the Daily Mail goes out of business, I’ll have to give up this column
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Spies, Suspicion and Empty Monasteries - Burma Today

Ten weeks after the saffron revolution was crushed, Chris McGreal sent this rare dispatch from a country gripped by fear
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At Least This Christmas We’ll Know Officially How Drunk We Mustn’t Be

AL Kennedy: With boozier booze and bigger glasses, the odds are increasingly stacked against women surviving the season health intact
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This Just Isn’t Cricket

Mark Lawson: The Australian proposal for day-night Tests has revealed a reactionary in this former radical
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Michael Concoran

Obituary: Bookseller who collected first editions and made a small name for himself in the transatlantic trade
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