Smash Hit

You created the job. You should do it

David Miliband is wrong to think it's better to be in loyal opposition than to be EU high representative

• Daniel Finkelstein

Nuclear alone won’t keep us going

Britain’s energy policy is a mess. We need an explicit carbon tax to fund the greenest alternatives

• Dieter Helm

A swindler with a ready maid plan

What’s the difference between a woman at a Jakarta cash machine and a top currency trader?

• Leo Lewis

Columnists  

Charming to pillory disabled Brown

No one deserves the vindictiveness being directed towards an accident-prone Prime Minister

• Melanie Reid

Violent video games won’t corrupt

Just like comic books before it, Modern Warfare 2 is besieged by ignorant screams for censorship

• Rob Fahey

Buggies: infuriating and dangerous

I am lucky that my children are not all digitally challenged

• Alice Thomson

Leading articles

Own goal

England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup finals is careering off the rails. The Government and the bid’s chairman, Lord Triesman, must get it back on track

Siamese spat

Thais should be free to understand more about the role of their own monarchy

Taming the goats

When externally appointed ministers leave office they should also leave the Lords

Faith  

Atheist Hirst to display paintings in church

The controversial artist will emulate the old masters by painting two 20ft-high religious works for display in St Paul’s

Reaction from UK mosques

Worshippers at one of the UK's biggest mosques said Muslims who serve are complicit in killing their ‘brothers and sisters’

Air turns blue round TV's new comic vicar

Strong language will feature in the BBC's after-the-watershed satire on the tribulations of an inner-city parish

Priests to perform second album in Liverpool

Trio will perform from their new album, Harmony, after a year of combining parish duties with global fame and fortune

Obituaries  

The Right Rev Stephen Verney

Free-spirited Anglican bishop who could be critical of the Church and wrote extensively about his faith

John Edwards

Abstract painter and sculptor and distinguished teacher who became head of painting at St Martin’s School of Art

Timothy Bateson

Film and theatre actor who played the downtrodden Lucky in the English premiere of Waiting for Godot in 1955

Albert Elms

Composer of marches and incidental music for the TV shows Thorndike, The Champions, Man in a Suitcase and The Prisoner

Join the Debate  

Race to build 10 nuclear stations in Britain

Government announces £50 billion programme to improve energy security but is accused of reacting too late to avoid crisis

Britain’s EuroMillions lottery winners step forward

If the ticketholders are individuals and not syndicates their £45.5m share could buy Portsmouth FC or an entire island

Thanks for the MBE, Ma'am, any sausages with that?

Butcher who keeps a biro behind his ear to take orders kept it there on Palace visit in case the Queen needed any meat