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• The Saville report: late, costly – and unnecessary, too?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  On 22 March next year, Lord Saville of Newdigate expects to deliver to the government the report of the Bloody Sunday inquiry. The word "expects" has been used before. The public hearings ended in November 2004, and the report has been expected – or at least hoped for – from 2006 onwards. The inquiry has already ...
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• In praise of ... Sir Liam Donaldson

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The chief medical officer – the nations doctor – has often been a powerful force for good. From Victorian times when Sir John Simon insisted on publishing independent annual reports on any subject related to public health (starting with compulsory smallpox vaccination and moving on to housing and sanitation), to ...
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• Open door: The readers editor on ... unwrapping complaints with a touch of bah humbug

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The readers editor on ... unwrapping complaints with a touch of bah humbug Expressions of frustration with holiday season pieces started early this year. First up was a complaint that a picture used to illustrate an article headlined How to buy a Christmas champagne bargain , showed champagne being poured into the ...
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• Rage Against the Machine? Raging within the machine will do for now

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Forget Joe McElderrys weak vocal doodle. Killing in the Name would be a great Christmas No 1 At the time of writing, its not clear whether the 2009 Christmas No 1 will be The Climb by Joe McElderry, or Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine. Ive just done my bit to inch the latter closer to the top spot by ...
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• Beyond Copenhagen: Dialogue, not diktat

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  As it drifts from the present into the past, the Copenhagen climate change conference looks both better and worse. Worse, because a considered reading of the accord , which was its only tangible output, reveals that it is not just inadequate but in fact utterly empty. Better, because of the novel manner in which ...
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• MPs and Westminster: Strictly politics

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The great annual voting climax has passed. At the weekend, Strictly Come Dancing salsad off into its sequinned winter hibernation. Though pipped at the post for the No 1 spot, the X factors Joe McElderry is celebrating his first week as a bona fide pop star. If it were not for Christmas, a terrible depression ...
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• Grouches of the season | Peter Preston

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  If theres one thing worse than a Christmas e-card, its having the real ones delivered by a postie Is your lifetime glass half empty or half brimming full? Does the cup of woe run over without Wogan , or fizz at the thought of a Chris Evans future? Are we crocked in Copenhagen, or travelling hopefully on to our next ...
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• Smalltown Americas growing voice of rage is a force to be reckoned with | Gary Younge

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  In poorer, isolated towns the rightwing protest movement is flourishing. Republicans as well as Obama must take note One of the paradoxes of being a foreign reporter in smalltown America is that within any one day, you will hear people insist that they stand at the centre of global affairs and simultaneously act as ...
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• Dogged Brown can still upset Camerons enigma variations | Jackie Ashley

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The Tory leader wants to be all things to all people, but cant. If Labour found a new energy, we could see a hung parliament We are about to see yet another Dave Cameron , it seems, once the Christmas decorations are put away. After the original smiley Blair-lite Dave, then frowning bad-news Recession Dave, the ...
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• Engaging Syria | James Denselow

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Change in Syria is unlikely to come quickly. But in the meantime, we shouldnt keep it out in the cold Critics of Syria have in the past compared the tale of the Assad dynasty to that of the Corleone family in The Godfather. In a National Geographic article this month that infuriated the Syrians to the extent that ...
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• US healthcare bill: Half a loaf is better than none

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Liberal commentators say US healthcare proposal is a giveaway to private insurance companies but this bill will save lives We have an old saying in American politics that a half a loaf of bread is better than no loaf at all. Take what you can get, the invoker of this chestnut is saying – call it a win and come back ...
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• Stop tiptoeing around honour killings | Poorna Shetty

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Anyone who thinks murder is better than suffering the indignation of a community needs more than a softly-softly approach The dust has barely settled on the case of Tulay Goren – the Turkish schoolgirl murdered by her own father. Tulays murder will not be the last of its kind, but she should be the last who was ...
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• Depriving children of a father is selfish | Veronica Lee

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Its becoming increasingly easy for women to raise children without a father – but this is unfair and self-centred Last month a single friend of mine gave birth, having declared her intention to raise her child alone. She hasnt been abandoned by the father and nor, fortunately, was the conception the result of rape ...
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• Sundays are for rest, not rucks and malls | Kevin McKenna

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Rugby star Euan Murray is right to keep the Sabbath free, both for the Lord and for society If there was a World Cup for Christians, the Free Church of Scotland would win it more often than anyone else. The Wee Frees would be like Brazil. They would play a pure brand of "total Christianity" that would always prevail ...
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• In rape cases, no means no to everyone except the British public | Nick Cohen

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Judges and the police have come far since the 70s. How sad juries havent kept pace A young woman walks into a bar, drinks too much and carelessly shows the man next to her that she is carrying a wad of notes in her handbag. He mugs her on her way home and the police arrest him. The jurors mutter that she has no one ...
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• The horror of virtual courts is upon us | Henry Porter

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Jack Straws video links to magistrates courts threaten young and vulnerable defendants in jail Almost the moment Roman Polanski appeared on the screen in the courtroom, I suspected we might lose the libel case, which turned on whether the film director did, or did not, say to a young woman outside Elaines restaurant ...
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• All that I admired about Tony Blair is being destroyed by his lack of humility

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The former prime ministers biographer says Tony Blair doesnt need to apologise for taking us to war in Iraq, but he should show contrition about other grave errors of judgment Tony Blair built his career in the 1990s upon a peerless understanding of the British public. More clearly than anyone, he understood the ...
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• Do you learn faithlessness?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Tiger Woodss father was a serial cheat, according to the golfers first girlfriend, Dina Parr Mary Warnock Some people, like some species of birds, are genetically disposed to fidelity, others are not. But I doubt if Tigers father, whether by nature or nurture, had anything to do with his record-breaking ...
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• Why I rage on behalf of the ordinary Joes | Barbara Ellen

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  So what happened? Did Rage Against the Machine rage against music mogul Simon Cowell successfully – did they manage to topple Joe McElderrys The Climb, making their own track, Killing in The Name, the first non- X Factor Christmas number one in five years? Whatever the outcome, what point were they and the online ...
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• The outcome at Copenhagen was disappointing. But if we work hard, there is still a way forward

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The world needed a climate treaty from the Copenhagen summit last week. All it got was an accord. There was no hiding the disappointment. The deal that emerged after more than a year of pre-summit negotiations and two weeks of face-to-face talks was merely, in Gordon Browns terms, "a first step". According to Barack ...
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