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Belle lays bare the myth that every hooker is a victim

I'm hard-pressed to see how an expensive hooker differs wildly from an under-dressed 'party girl' out on the town with someone loaded

• India Knight

• I’m Belle de Jour

A game of two halves: cheating and whining

It’s not their fellow cheats the footballers despise, but the referees for not spotting every one of their dishonest tricks

• Dominic Lawson

Wind of deceit drives Labour’s green energy plan

It looks as if, just before the Copenhagen climate conference, Labour is at last doing something aggressive about climate change

• Charles Clover

Columnists  

Sadly, most people with a learning disability should not have children

It is hard enough to be an adequate parent with supposedly normal intelligence. For someone of very low intelligence it is even harder

• Minette Marrin

Mandelson bets on two sure-fire losers

Labour and Europe look united on one thing: neither is prepared to take itself seriously

• Martin Ivens

That Queen’s speech in full . . . plus a translation

My government will endeavour to ensure not only that England hosts the World Cup in 2018, but actually wins it too

• Rod Liddle

Leading articles

Mr Brown bungles in Brussels

The fact that Lord Mandelson wanted the EU foreign job indicates he knows that his rescue mission for Mr Brown is doomed

Video replays are the simple solution

Traditionalists might not like it but football has moved a long way from the days of terraces and Bovril

Final word: It is now time to kick the bride

Already common in the United States, divorce parties are becoming increasingly popular in Britain

Faith  

Archbishop tells Pope: women priests here for good

Dr Williams takes hardline stance in Rome as he dismisses Catholic Church's attempt to lure disaffected Anglicans

Muslim teachers and students reject Darwin

In countries such as Egypt and Pakistan academics are, under conservative influence, rejecting evolution, a physicist warns

Scholar finds death certificate in Turin Shroud

Dr Barbara Frale claims she deciphered the burial certificate of 'Jesus the Nazarene' from fragments imprinted on the cloth

Archbishop says more tax could do us good

Dr Rowan Williams says that the constant search for 'fantasies' of economic growth is creating personal anxiety and rivalry

Obituaries  

Jeanne-Claude

Single-minded artist who, with her husband Christo, staged such vast and audacious spectacles as wrapping up the Reichstag in Berlin

Professor Barrie Rickards

Palaeontologist of international renown and dedicated angler who wrote extensively on both subjects

Des Bartlett

Resourceful and innovative cameraman who shot award-winning film of wild animals in their own environments on six continents

Roger Kendrick

Highly regarded prison governor who held several testing posts including an Ulster jail for paramilitaries

Join the Debate  

European disappointment

From the beginning, the filling of the EU posts has been an embarrassment

Birth control: best way to cut greenhouse gas

A UN report says that preventing 1 billion births by 2050 would save as much carbon dioxide as 2 million wind turbines

Large wind turbines ‘won’t need planning’

Housing minister John Healey issues radical proposals allowing renewable energy measures to bypass existing regulations

Google opens new chapter with online library

The new proposals will enable tens of thousands of British writers to profit as readers gain access to millions of works