Smash hit

The ghost of Robin Cook haunts Chilcot’s feast

In 2003 the irascible MP resigned over the Iraq war. His clarity of principle contrasts sharply with today’s grey fudge

• Ben Macintyre

The truth shouldn’t need oaths

This criticism of the Chilcot inquiry is absurd

• Matthew Parris

Violence: let’s separate the men from the boys

Posters, T-shirts and education campaigns won’t do. Only robust child protection will break the cycle for boys – and girls

• Camila Batmangelidjh

Without maths we’re lost in a dark labyrinth

It’s the glue that binds scientific and artistic cultures. The language of number and symmetry is spoken everywhere

• Marcus du Sautoy

Atlantic drift

Washington’s delay in announcing its Afghanistan strategy has left Brown drifting. Obama needs to invest more time and attention in the transatlantic alliance

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

Geoffrey Moorhouse

Journalist who turned with success to writing non-fiction books on history, sport and foreign countries, often imbued with mysticism

Captain Robin Green

Royal Fleet Auxiliary officer who helped to rescue fellow mariners during the Falklands conflict despite his own ship being crippled

Brown wants royal law changed for Catholics

PM suggested he wants to lift ban on Roman Catholics ascending to Throne and overturn male supremacy in succession