Watch Out

Don’t waste your money on an early election

There are always rumours. But Gordon Brown would be mad to go the country with his party at a paltry 30 per cent

• Daniel Finkelstein

Britain needs the Bomb? That was the last war

In the Cold War, Trident was a deterrent. In the War on Terror it is irrelevant. The money would be better spent elsewhere

• Roy Hattersley

Japan’s secret weapon: a towel on a stick

For years I have been tracked through the industrial landscape

• Leo Lewis

Columnists  

Who will go in to bat for crime’s victims?

It may be just to jail a man who beats up a burglar, but don’t be surprised if the public feel betrayed

• Antonia Senior

How the gates were closed on the jet-set era

Heathrow’s current troubles and past triumphs reflect the ups and downs of the nation — as they do in airports everywhere

• Stephen Bayley

Opponents of assisted suicide are in a minority

Faith drives those who are against it, while most of the rest of us favour change

• Joel Joffe

Leading articles

Without delay

Faced with a choice of scrapping its plans for new aircraft carriers or pressing ahead, the Government picked the financially costly option of dithering

Abuse of process

The targeting of Israeli ministers by the courts is not justice, it is a disgrace

Not Flying the Flag

Is the Union Jack still the most appropriate logo for BA’s tailfins?

Faith  

Hotelier cleared of insulting Muslim guest

Judge throws out case against evangelical Christians and says accuser's version of events could not be relied upon

Five arrested US Muslims 'connected to al-Qaeda'

Pakistani police say the five US citizens arrested in a house raid are linked to al-Qaeda and had jihad intentions

Gay friend of Archbishop feels 'betrayed'

Rev Colin Coward says families and networks of friends are deserting the Anglican Church because of its hostility to gay people

Sarkozy: Muslims must be discreet about faith

French President voices sympathy for Swiss voters over ban on minarets amid heated debate on cultural identity

Obituaries  

Sir Richard O’Brien

Much decorated wartime soldier who believed in a planned economy and became head of the Manpower Services Commission

Paul Eddy

Journalist who edited the investigative Insight column on The Sunday Times and later settled in France to write thrillers

Moyra Fraser

Actress who stole the show in a variety of comic roles in the West End, including her role as Poppy Fenton in The Big Tickle

Thomas Hoving

Swashbuckling director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, whose showmanship hugely increased the number of visitors

Join the Debate  

Labour faces wipe-out if it waits till May

But if Gordon Brown goes to the polls in March his prospects, though better, are still bleak

Tiger left in deep rough as TV ads fade away

Golfer disappeared from screens during commercial breaks amid signs that his sponsors could be heading for the exit

Corus blames job cuts on lack of support

Britain’s biggest steelmaker tore into the Government as it said it was mothballing most of a site, cutting 1,700 jobs