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How to gauge success at Copenhagen

Carbon trading may have its drawbacks but it is one of the few things to have cut greenhouse gases since the world first promised to do so in 1992

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Toff-baiting, the dangerous sport that will hurt you too

Is there something about being rich, highly educated and well travelled that makes toffs unfit for office?

Boozy, sexed-up Sally, the sinner we all need

If Sally Bercow can speak as honestly and engagingly about policy as she does about snogging men she might turn out to be a real asset

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Martin Ivens

A hung parliament won’t stop the cuts

Most people are betting on Labour losing, but that doesn’t automatically mean the Tories will win convincingly

Dominic Lawson

Admire Tiger's swing, ignore his swinging

The vast majority of Tiger Wood’s fanbase are men who care much more about golf than about the women in their own lives

Give power to the people and expect lunacy

They could have banned cuckoo clocks, mountains and venality and made the world a much happier place. But no, they chose minarets

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Prepare for long haul in Afghanistan

Troops will have to stay in Afghanistan for decades, much as British and American forces are still in Germany 20 years after the end of the cold war

Copenhagen's hot air may help cool the planet

That so many leaders are heading to Denmark and that Barack Obama will be at the summit’s climax show they expect to strike a deal

Final word: Oh Mr Speaker, you’re a saucy one

John Bercow is shaping up very nicely as the most embarrassing Speaker in living memory

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A Classy Meal

Faith  

Dr Rowan Williams at the Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome

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

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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

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Why love makes you religious

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Richard Todd: The Times obituary

Dashing stage and screen actor who showed a stiff upper lip as Guy Gibson in The Dam Busters and in a host of similar starring roles

Eric Woolfson

Eric Woolfson

Talented songwriter, lyricist, manager and co-founder of the Alan Parsons Project who helped to fund the SDP

Lady Hilaria Gibbs

Earl’s daughter whose medieval Cornish manor was the first historic house to pass to the National Trust in lieu of death duties

Giorgio Carbone

Prince of Seborga, a tiny piece of land in Liguria for which he claimed independence much to the delight of its inhabitants

Robert Enke

Obituaries in the news

Lives that made headlines in death: from Germany's goalkeeper Robert Enke and the pop icon Michael Jackson, to the stage and film actress Natasha Richardson

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The Metropolitan Police force celebrates it's 175th anniversary

'Police not spending any more time on the beat'

Government’s adviser on red tape criticised policing practises as the Home Secretary announced measures to save £545m

Strong City is not just good for Britain

Our financial institutions are New York’s only rival. Europe must not be allowed to hamper them

Co-ed schools divide classes by sex

Teachers find that both boys and girls concentrate better in lessons without the distraction of the opposite sex

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Getting to the bottom of climate change

For climate science to regain a shred of credibility we must have a full audit of all government-funded climate research

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