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Condemned out of hand by the Inland Revenue

If I were the Queen, I’d take my initials off HM Revenue and Customs in disgust

Fantasy world fuelled by sex and drugs

The bravado of the ‘sexually adventurous’, such as Amanda Knox, masks the real damage caused by a life of endless flings

Fundamentalist brew: faith and power

Don’t blame anti-Catholicism and lawyers for the cover-up in Ireland. The Church protected itself

Too proud to claim my Jaffa Cakes on expenses

There are two financial camps. And a man who won’t buy his own anorak for a charity climb is in the opposite one to me

The key to rubbing along in perfect harmony

Authoritarianism is a sin of religiosity: believers need to heed the Jewish experience about respecting the secular majority

Climb mountains, taste the salt of risk

Letters by celebrities to their younger selves show that Prince Edward was right

Good work. Commendable courage

Question Time wasn’t perfect, but the BNP won't gain from it, whatever the chattering classes say

Converts may choke on raw meat of Catholicism

The welcoming of Anglican clergy into the Catholic Church highlights the differences, and difficulties, of the approach

Are you ready for couples therapy?

We’ve blown our fuse at the way MPs cheated on us. But we must offer a dash of understanding

If the future’s worth it, it won’t be free

The internet generation believes it can enjoy other people’s hard work for nothing. This has got to stop, argues Libby Purves

Do put prisoners on stage, Mr Straw

The Justice Secretary’s diktat to limit drama in jails shackles brave prison governors

Baby swap is nothing to do with Ofsted

Government and its regulations exist to defend us from incompetent or bad strangers, not our mates

We romantics know prenups are here to stay

Pragmatic couples are signing contracts to ensure that divorces don’t turn into rip-offs. It’s time the law caught up

If we can’t have more police, have less tolerance

The suicide of a mother tormented by feral gangs shows that it’s time we put the frighteners on young thugs

Vulnerable people? Quick draft a law

Have the architects of the cockamamie child vetting scheme actually met a child?

At times we long for yesterday

The Fab Four evoke an age of innocence. But we should not forget the harsh realities of the Sixties

Neeeoww! Let’s stick up for boisterous boys

Dreary coursework and earnest women teachers have let pupils down. Many prefer the excitement of sudden-death exams

Don’t send a 13-year-old out to sea alone

Children need to take risks but the Dutch authorities are right to scupper family’s foolish sailing plan for their daughter

Be a human: climb something

The adventurers who scaled Blackpool Tower belong to a tradition that defies our plodding culture