Commentariat

Letters: Raising the stakes in the Caucasus

guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:19:43 +0000

Letters: It is the west's reluctance to accommodate Russia's security concerns which will initiate the new cold war

Letters: Milton Friedman - a true institution

guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:11:17 +0000

Letters: Friedman's scholarship made him one of the most influential economists of the 20th century

Editorial: Former British resident on trial for capital offence says confessions were extracted under torture

guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:11:03 +0000

Editorial: Paperwork held by the government could make all the difference for Binyam Mohamed

Editorial: A delicate unity

Editorial — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:11:03 +0000

Editorial: This week's Democratic convention builds towards open-air speech by Barack Obama

Editorial: In praise of … the Bridgewater loan

guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:11:02 +0000

Editorial: Titian's two paintings are among the most important old masters in private hands

Timothy Garton Ash: Soon Obama must heed Canute

Timothy Garton Ash — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:11:02 +0000

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

Hadley Freeman: Only the clotheshorses can buck fashion’s thin fixation

Hadley Freeman — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:11:02 +0000

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

Seumas Milne: Georgia is the graveyard of America’s unipolar world

Seumas Milne — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:11:02 +0000

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

Ron Prosor: Showboating over Gaza

Ron Prosor — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:11:01 +0000

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

Roy Hattersley: It’s a windfall. Now share it

Roy Hattersley — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:11:01 +0000

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

David Thomson: The right to cause offence

David Thomson — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:11:01 +0000

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

Country diary: Loch Ruthven

Ray Collier — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:10:37 +0000

Ray Collier: Loch Ruthven

Letters: Carry on camping

guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:10:15 +0000

Letters: In your report on the Notting Hill carnival you overlooked the fact that the majority of it was peaceful

Corrections and clarifications

guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:10:14 +0000

Today's corrections

Letters: Naked truths and the suffragette movement

guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:09:42 +0000

Letters: What was the point of Her Naked Skin? To show risible scenes of lesbian sex and a forced-feeding scene?

Response: Young transsexuals should be allowed to put puberty on hold

Richard Green — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:09:29 +0000

Response: Halting development allows teenagers time to consider their potential treatment, says Richard Green

Hugh Muir’s diary

Hugh Muir — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:08:51 +0000

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

Letters: Titan prisons are not the solution

guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:08:39 +0000

Letters: Government's plans would cement this country's position as the prison capital of western Europe

Steve Bell on Fox News’s take on Barack Obama

Steve Bell — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:06:52 +0000

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

The Conservatives must put the economy straight

Comment - Columnists - Guest Contributors — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:00:57 +0000

Soft politics is out. Hard politics is back. A looming economic crisis is forcing us all to sort out our priorities. Voters must adjust to dearer food, fuel and mortgages. Politicians must adapt to help them.

Children: those things other people look after

Comment from Times Online — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:00:47 +0000

This summer I've been in that black hole that every working mother falls into at some point: when the childcare fails. The person who was looking after my children decided to leave, and I have been struggling to find a replacement. Some women cope by calling in sick; others hunch over the mobile between meetings, organising extended “playdates” with sympathetic friends and explaining to ageing relatives that Teddy must go in the cold wash, however gooey he is. When you're in the black hole, the gravitational pull of home can become overwhelming.

Americans must give the Republicans a good kicking on November 4

Comment from Times Online — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:00:37 +0000

To judge by Barack Obama's disappointing performance so far in the opinion polls, reflected in the surprisingly subdued atmosphere at the Denver convention, Democrats are suffering a bad case of “buyer's remorse”.

Let's give today's Lord of the Flies generation a break

Comment - Columnists - Guest Contributors — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:00:26 +0000

When Lord of the Flies was first written it sold only 3,000 copies before going out of print. No one could believe in Jack, Piggy and Ralph and the thought that boys could turn into murderers, lacerating each other's flesh and revelling in torture and death.

Sean Connery, George Steiner, Alfred Brendel: what's the link?

Comment from Times Online — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:00:13 +0000

What do these three men - all comfortably beyond the age of retirement - have in common: Sean Connery, Alfred Brendel, George Steiner?

David Miliband must stop playing with fire

Comment from Times Online — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:00:04 +0000

Russia, according to President Medvedev, is ready for a “new Cold War”. If politicians, including our own, want a new Cold War, they will get one. But the fault will be lie as much with us as Russia.

Rupert Cornwell: So is Obama the saviour of his party?