Commentariat

Guardian Comment and Debate

Seumas Milne: Russia’s defiance in the Caucasus has brought down the curtain on Bush senior’s new world order - not before time

Hadley Freeman: The labels won’t, and nor will the glossies. It takes the likes of Kate Moss to challenge the addiction to skinny models

Timothy Garton Ash: Look beyond Denver’s schmaltzfest and you see how the relative power of a US president is diminishing on all sides

David Thomson: Protests at a new satirical film are misplaced. Blunt expression is less harmful than suffocating piety

Roy Hattersley: Energy firms’ profits are unearned. In hard times, it is intolerable that they cash in as people go cold

Ron Prosor: The protesters who came ashore last week should blame Hamas rather than Israel for the territory’s ills

Hugh Muir: David Lyscom, who will take the helm at the Independent Schools Council, may be our hero

Look beyond tonight’s Denver schmaltzfest and you see how the relative power of a US president is diminishing on all sides

Deborah Hargreaves: The proposed energy levy would be arbitrary and unfair, and would ruin Britain’s chances in the race for resources

Simon Jenkins: The success of the British Olympic team in Beijing has been like that of British troops in battle

Jawed Ludin: If the US wants to bolster this fragile democracy, a radical new strategy to defeat terror is called for

Jonathan Freedland: With startling chutzpah, Republicans are again casting the opponent as out of touch. Democrats shouldn’t play the game

Zoe Williams: Second-youth rebels like Paxman and Shriver always bottle it when it comes to genuine taboos

Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Cities and even countries sometimes change their names. That’s fine, but why should we follow?

With startling chutzpah, Republicans are again casting the opponent as out of touch. Democrats shouldn’t play the game

Hugh Muir: Let’s put it about that the leaders and adherents are at loggerheads

Polly Toynbee: This party should be taking on the cheating and avoidance of the super-rich. Instead they cower in their caves

Lynsey Hanley: How cheering to see a London double-decker take the Olympic flame. May it mark the start of a public transport revival

Tim Montgomerie: Europeans adore Obama, but long-term global security calls for a strong leader, in Bush’s mould

Viktor Yushchenko: The South Ossetian crisis unnerved us. To ensure our security, we need to be embraced by Nato

George Monbiot: The world’s hungriest are the losers as an old colonialism returns to govern relations between wealthy and poor nations

Hugh Muir: We wait with baited breath for the plan to tackle gangs and guns and knife crime in the capital

Europeans adore Obama, but long-term global security calls for a strong leader, in Bush’s mould

David Marsh on … the linguistic barbarians at the gates

Peter Preston: Getting the children from villa to beach used to be a doddle. Today, with five little ones, it’s quite a task