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If you cover it up, we assume the worst

"Redaction" – or censorship – can make even the most innocent excision appear suggestive of infamy and depredation

Can Sir Alan fire the stereotype?

Why should anyone moderate exuberant behaviour to appease the prejudices of others?

This will pull us over the edge

A great virtue of the law as it stands is that it protects the most vulnerable, Lord Falconer's proposed changes endanger this

A legal mess exposed by Baby P’s mother

Judges are statutorily prevented from ensuring that the punishment fits the crime

Tories crow but they are dithering on debt

Standard & Poor is saying it doubts whether the Conservatives will "put the UK debt burden on a secure downward trajectory"

The eight weasel ways MPs avoid saying sorry

Psychologists will be writing doctoral theses for years on the responses by British MPs to the charges of dishonesty

Celebrity kukri draws blood at No 10

Political arguments should be judged on their merits, rather than by the relative beauty, charm or fame of the proponents

Hush, Miss Lumley, they knew the deal

The Gurkhas have much less to complain about than at any time in their long and honourable history

Tehran launches its custard pie strike

Iran knows that opposing Zionism and adopting the cause of the plight of Palestinians appeals to the muslim on the street

Beware green jobs, the new sub-prime

There is something quite comical in the government’s belief that the electric car is a magic recipe

Lash out, close ranks – it’s the police way

The Met's reaction to the circumstances of Ian Tomlinson's death undermines the public trust on which it was formed

Gordon’s gang pulls a $1 trillion con trick

The PM has always been a complete stranger to the true meaning of numbers

Enough, population doom merchants

The population control movement is nothing more than an idea in search of an argument

More regulation can’t be right

Who regulates the regulators? The answer is obvious: more regulators – and so on until infinity or the public purse runs out

Ivan Cameron and the meaning of life

Even those who think of themselves as sympathetic can be astonishingly insensitive about disability

A Ponzi scheme that's conning us all

The government does things that would put a private sector provider in jail

Obama’s new deal is the same old blunder

America’s debt is already enormous, even before Obama’s "jump-start" has begun to hoover up the taxpayers’ trillions