Commentariat

Telegraph Editorial

With the citizens of Bombay still mopping up the blood on their streets, attention has quickly turned to who is behind last week’s terror attacks.

New research suggests that women, not men, have the biggest problems getting on with the mother of their spouse.

Banks are concentrating on reducing their loan books at the very time the Government wants them to do the opposite. This dangerous counter-productivity must change.

While Obama’s picks will disappoint his staunchest supporters on the Left, he has chosen a powerful national security team who could strike a very different stance on the world stage.

If the Islamist fanatics who killed as many as 300 people in Bombay can execute an operation on such a scale in India, they could do it in Britain.

The Prime Minister has yet to make a statement as to whether the pre-Budget report is the harbinger of a return to Old Labour policies of punitive taxation.

Norwich council will throw the book at hairdressers who offer their clients a Christmas tipple. Where is their festive spirit?

To describe the arrest and detention of Damian Green, the Conservative front-bench spokesman, as an outrage hardly captures the enormity of one of the most extraordinary events in recent parliamentary history.

Could Pakistani intelligence have been unaware of a paramilitary operation of this scale? This is a question that President Asif Zardari urgently needs to answer, and not just to satisfy foreign critics.

The attack by Islamist terrorists on Bombay was the eighth such outrage in India since May, but by far the most sophisticated and bloody.

Sir Ian Blair, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, leaves his post today after a turbulent few years in one of the most difficult jobs in public life.

Heston Blumenthal is the chef who invented snail porridge and bacon and egg ice-cream. Now he’s turned his attention to Little Chef.

The treatment of two women soldiers highlights the warped priorities of public life in Britain today.

Lord Mandelson has rightly warned that it is “completely unacceptable” for “banks indefinitely to stop functioning as banks”. Holding the pistol of nationalisation to their head should remind them of their responsibilities.

Real resolution to Thailand’s problems requires the two sides to close the gulf between them, otherwise the tanks will be back on the streets.

Britain was at its best in the 1950s, the Labour MP Frank Field suggested. We now have much more, yet we have lost something.

By any historical measure, the Bank of England’s interest rate cut was as dramatic as it was welcome.

After years of grade inflation that has made an A the bare minimum for a bright pupil, the revelation that a train timetable has become a set text is hardly surprising.

One of the world’s hot spots, the Taiwan Strait, has cooled this week with the visit to Taipei by the most senior Chinese official since the island split from the mainland nearly 60 years ago.

The rule preventing NHS patients from “topping up” their treatment is cruel and vindictive. It is to the credit of the Health Secretary that he has finally acted against it.

We have had the champagne of the campaign - now comes the hangover. The new President-elect faces the bleakest situation since Reagan in 1980.

Mr Obama has lit up the political sky, but his down-to-earth opponent may yet be seen as more in tune with the tenor of the times.

To be funded by the Labour Government is to be kept on a tight rein. Nowhere is this more apparent than in English state schools.

Preventing crime and disorder not planning its prevention is the primary task of the police force set out by Robert Peel; Miss Smith should remember that.

The Bank of England’s sleepy mishandling of interest rates allowed inflation and consumer credit to expand excessively.