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European Union Takes a Stance or Is It Just Hot Air While the world battles climate change, no country is willing to take the first step. It seems that the European Union has...	Swine Flu - Child Killer! If you thought that swine flu could only harm the patient, then you need to read this!
Yes, the Global Financial Sector Has Upped Its Game – But Not Nearly Enough Yes, the global financial sector has upped its game – but not nearly enough	What the Conservatives Should Do With the Bbc Norman Fowler's five-point plan for making the corporation more effective
A Free Standard Will Really Test the Paid-for News Model The make-or-break decision by the Evening Standard to go free will either lead to its closure or help it steal market share...	Yes, the Global Financial Sector Has Upped Its Game – But Not Nearly Enough Yes, the global financial sector has upped its game – but not nearly enough
A Reluctance to Court Celebrity Marcel Berlins: A new survey of the number of the times legal figures featured in the national and regional press in the...	Playing a Dangerous Game Michael White: Cameron persists in pandering to the untamed right over the EU but it is a perilous strategy
The Return of the Cracking Good Read For years the Booker shortlist has eschewed narrative in favor of sometimes unreadable literary fiction. But the tables are...	Will Evening Standard Fight London Lite? After the london paper retreated in the free sheet wars, Lebedev's huge gamble to make the Standard free will depend on...
Murdoch Wants to Charge for News, But What Will Readers Be Prepared to Pay? Rupert Murdoch has ordered his lieutenants to fix a price for internet news, but the answer remains stubbornly elusive	Class Actions Are Vital to Help Women Fight for Equal Pay The Equality bill needs to be beefed up if women are to bridge the 17% pay gap with their male counterparts
Sorry, David Cameron, We Won't Join in Cynical Calls for Fake Change Nick Clegg: Despite the Tory leader's claims two weeks ago, differences between political parties do matter	Dante's Inferno is No More of a Fantasy Than the Fairytales the Bankers Told Us Gordon Brown and many others believed the theory that the dominant finance sector was socially beneficial. They were...
Spectator's Old Fogeys Prove There's Profit in Internet News As the newspaper industry ponders a bid to make the web pay, the Spectator is already blazing a trail	Portugal's New Paper Points to Print's Future New launch shows rethinking the newspaper can raise circulation
Contempt for Heroes is Glasgow's Worst Toxin Kevin McKenna: What hope for this desperately poor area when the baggage-handler candidate widely feted abroad is so...	Vanessa George Case Shows Armchair Paedophiles Are Just As Guilty Barbara Ellen: The George case shines a torch into a dark corner - how the sheer ease of the internet has created new, less...
One Happy Ending for Library Closures – But Not the Last Chapter Rachel Cooke: We've won the battle in Wirral but but more skirmishes are on the way	Power Beckons for the Tories, But Are They Ready for It? Andrew Rawnsley: David Cameron has brought his party to the brink of government. Now we need more clarity about what he...
Mandelson Was Brighton's Darling But Brown Gave Labour a Future Will Hutton: The PM's speech marked his return to social democracy and helped ensure that his party will bounce back after...	When Daddy is Just an Optional Extra Elizabeth Day: Forget the debate about working mothers; it's fathers who get a raw deal in bringing up baby
Britain Must Grow Up and Stop Believing Europhobe Nonsense Rafael Behr: The Irish vote opens a new era for the European Union. Now we should put skepticism behind us and start...	Gordon Brown's Fawlty Powers Simon Hoggart: The PM's speech reminded me of John Smith's speech the night before he died
From Salt of the Earth to Scourge of Society Cruelty existed in social housing in the 1950s too, but never has it been flaunted so uninhibitedly	Why is It the Great Movies That Get Remade – and Not Dross Like Howard the Duck? Sam Leith: We need better excuses for returning to past classics than nostalgia or celebrities getting their kit off
Lloyds Bids a Long Goodbye to Victor Blank Directors have started to think of perks as entitlements with the same status as salary. They shouldn't	Will Turquoise Be Swallowed By Lse? If Xavier Rolet, new LSE chief, gets his hands on Turquoise it could allow him to extend his reach over Europe
The Boom Years Never Really Happened – But Labour Won't Accept It I could have attended the labor party conference. But I thought: why squander a trip to the seaside? Yet I am still amazed...	Loose Women's 10th Anniversary Really Isn't Worth Celebrating It's a period of big TV birthdays, with Question Time and Newsnight pushing 30 and Loose Women...
It's the Piddling Issues Wot Might Win It Simon Hoggart: Golly, labor loathe the paper that has supported them in the last three elections	Why Has Andrew Marr Been Criticised for Asking Gordon Brown If He Was on Antidepressants? The war on drugs may be lost. But the war on medicines is hotting up. Some talk of boycotting BBC political editor Andrew...
Fifa v Pro Evo: the War for Your Calloused Thumb Jack Arnott: Will the latest versions of the football game franchises tempt you to switch allegiances?	Nils Pratley: Bankers and Bonuses Here is a late-in-the-day Treasury announcement on bonus reforms, just as the chancellor leaves the labor party conference...
Sir Stuart Rose: Capitalism's Knight in Shining Armour M&S boss strays into politics in defence of 'business'	Polly Toynbee: A New Public Services: Ed Balls's Promise to Cut £2bn From Schools is Typical of This Disastrous Fastest-axer-takes-all Fight The great contest of the cuts has begun. Whose ax is biggest? Fastest slasher takes all. If that is the electoral...
Jonathan Freedland:a New Public Services: Some Like to Describe the Nhs As a Government-run Insurance Scheme. But That Hardly Captures the Essence of a Public Service There are some people for whom "public services" is a distinctly slippery notion. I didn't realize it at the time...	John Vidal: A New Public Services: Green Space, Health and Economic Development Are Proved to Be Linked – This is Where the Money Should Be Spent Switching public spending from "grey" projects such as roads and airports, to "green" schemes such as...
Alan Travis: A New Public Services: Pressure on Spending Will Increase the Need for Reform, Not for a Backlash Over Police Numbers Labour's decade of investment in policing boosted the strength of the 43 forces in England and Wales to record levels,...	Revelation is the Most Important Element, Now That Publishers Are So Desperate for Media Attention So the UK publishing industry has dubbed tomorrow "Super Thursday" because it marks the arrival in panting...
Hugh Muir: A New Public Services: Doncaster, Under Peter Davies, Its New Mayor, is Seeing an Extreme Version of 'soft' Cuts There are many options on how best to spend a shrinking pot of public money. But if one of the goals is preserving fairness...	Michael White: A New Public Services: How Can We Help the Nhs to Nurture Social Solidarity While Retaining the Essentials of Our Cherished Free Society? When Barack Obama made his powerful case for comprehensive healthcare and effective regulation of medical costs in the US...
Afua Hirsch: A New Public Services: Legal Aid is the Unofficial Extra Pillar of the Welfare State, and Desperately Needs an Overhaul The legal aid system has long been regarded as the unofficial extra pillar of the welfare state. It flourished in the 1970s...	Peter Hetherington: A New Public Services: These Public Service Cuts Are an Opportunity for Councils to Go Back to the Drawing Board and Create Efficiency The term "local government", as applied to Britain, must be one of the most misused in our language. Many of us...
Jane Dudman:a New Public Services: In Hard Times We Want More Public Services, With Better Leaders.how Can They Be Equipped to Bear the Attacks? In the past few weeks, we've seen an entirely predictable attack on the public sector, with the political parties promising...	Taking Families 'into Care' is a Better Option for Children Only in the worst cases of child abuse should babies be taken into care sooner, writes Dawn Howley
Productive Investment in Education Lies With the Very Youngest Children Polly Curtis: A new public services: Pre-school teaching is a more solid investment for education funding than...	Simon Hoggart: The Gist of the Pm's Conference Speech Was, That After 13 Years, Labour Fancies a Crack at Government Brown came on to a storming ovation, which must have been a relief. But then the Labour conference loves Sarah, and she...
Gordon Brown's Speech: Welcome to Dreamland Simon Hoggart: The gist of the PM's conference speech was, that after 13 years, labor fancies a crack at government	Eric Allison: A New Public Services: If We Get It Right With Young Offenders, We Pave the Way Towards a More Civilised Criminal Justice System Cuts in public spending present an opportunity for a bold justice minister to begin sorting out the mess that is the penal...
Blurred Picture at Jessops Tale of woe at camera retailer sees HSBC take 47% stake after writing off £34m of borrowings	This Was Probably the Last Prime Ministerial Speech of His Lifetime No, this was not "the speech of a lifetime" they said he must make. But it was probably the last prime...
A Surprisingly Profitable Recession The resilience in profits in some parts of the corporate UK landscape is bad news for those investors who missed it	Michele Hanson: A New Public Services: Let the Developers and the Super-wealthy Experience a Bit of Austerity for a Change The approaching new Age of Austerity is a terrifying prospect, because some of us thought we were in one already. Things...
Deborah Orr: A New Public Services: Lay Off the Long-term Unemployed for Now. In a Recession We Need a Self-help Model, Like Alcoholics Anonymous, That Gives Practical Support and Advice The trouble with cuts? They are expensive. That's why the last Conservative government actually expanded the state while...	Public Service Privatisation is a Fast Track to Corruption and Higher Costs Seumas Milne: A new public services: Public services must become the universal badge of social solidarity and citizenship...
Polly Toynbee: A New Public Services: Ed Balls' Promise to Cut £2bn From Schools is Typical of This Disastrous Fastest-axer-takes-all Fight The great contest of the cuts has begun. Whose ax is biggest? Fastest slasher takes all. If that is the electoral...	David Brindle: A New Public Services: Personal Budgets Are the Most Significant Social Policy Reform of This Government As Budgets Shrink and We Try to Do More for Less It's the dogs that do it. Whenever people are struggling to grasp the idea of personal budgets, the mist tends to clear...
Cory Doctorow: The Corporation is Set to Betray Licence-fee Payers and the Uk Tech Industry By Caving in to Hollywood Studios' Demands Back in August, the BBC sent a quiet notice to Ofcom asking for permission to cripple the next generation of digital...	Madeleine Bunting:a New Public Services: The Big Challenge is to Put Compassion and Attentiveness Back at the Centre of Public Services There is a pervasive sense that despite the much-needed new spending pumped into public services over the past 10 years,...

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