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Copenhagen will fail – and quite right too

Even if the science was reliable (which it isn’t), we should not force the world’s poorest countries to cut carbon emissions

• Nigel Lawson

They’re still wriggling to avoid the flak on Iraq

By the time Chilcot reports, we’ll have moved on – and that’s the intention. But we should never forget the postwar failures

• Melanie Reid

Rule the waves? Not any more we don’t

Lord Palmerston knew how to stand up for the citizens of Britain

• Michael Gove

Columnists  

A gross insult to the people of Europe

The EU should be trying to woo the public, not alienate them. They should listen to the sceptics

• William Rees-Mogg

Alas, it’s the end of the road for petrolheads

Modern cars are complex and boring. Gone are the days of tinkering under the bonnet or lusting, like Toad, after a ‘motor’

• Carl Mortished

Vladimir Putin is the prisoner of his secrets

The fallout from my husband’s murder reverberates still

• Marina Litvinenko

Leading articles

A Provocative Move

Israel’s decision to go ahead with new settlements around Jerusalem has angered Washington, derailed hopes for peace talks and done nothing to bolster its security

Working Minds

Victims of depression suffer enough without their torment being kept a taboo subject

Sea Change

New knowledge from the ocean floor has uses far beyond startling scientists

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  

Elisabeth Söderström

Swedish soprano and recording artist who excelled at almost every style of opera and was a regular performer at Glyndebourne

Michael Thornely

Inspirational headmaster of Sedbergh who oversaw a period of success in everything from academic results to the arts and sport

Orig Williams

Flamboyant Welsh wrestler who presented S4C’s grapple show Reslo and was known as El Bandito on account of his bushy moustache

Derek B

Pioneering performer who popularised rap music in the UK and was the first British rapper to achieve major chart success

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