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BA battle: As a cabin crew begin the strike, the airline faces a turbulent future. Fasten your seatbelts please

For sale? Stephen Byers faces an investigation into claims that he worked for companies to secure secret deals. Follow the debate

Obama's sweet victory: The heathcare reform bill was passed - after a century of trying. Triumph or disaster? Have your say

Fuelling anger: Consumers are furious about rising petrol prices, but who's to blame: oil companies or the chancellor?

Meow Meow: Should we criminalise 'legal highs' such as Mephedrone? Have your say

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Editors' picks

Only America can end Britain's Trident folly

George Monbiot: Talk of British sovereignty is laughable. We will blow billions on a nonsensical nuclear deterrent unless the US acts to disarm

If this is modernity, let me stay in the public sector cave

Joe Moran: A computer program that tells posties how to walk exemplifies the paradox of New Labour's management revolution

Healthcare reform: political gap widens

Michael Tomasky: We are about to witness a huge rhetorical battle over the impact of healthcare reform – but Barack Obama won't let his bipartisan hopes die

Lobbying's perfect storm

David Hencke: The government's failure to act sooner on lobbying left in place a system that ministers and lobbyists could exploit with impunity

Christian Wolmar: Byers's influence on rail deal is fantasy

From the paper: Comment, editorials, G2

Simon Tisdall

Sarkozy's problems aren't unique

Louise Roland-Gosselin

It's far too early to celebrate democracy in Sudan

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Endangered species: Last chance to see

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In praise of … Ted Hughes

Latest posts

16min ago
The crown estate is selling us out

Sally Bercow: The crown estate's planned sell-off of 1,300 London properties is a harsh blow to key workers and ordinary families
46min ago
Does politics need baby news?

Anne Perkins: For politicians, as SamCam's story shows, there is a thin line between normality and using your family as an electoral prop
1hr 16min ago
Bayreuth's King Lear

Martin Kettle: Wolfgang Wagner's daughters can open a new act in Europe's most remarkable operatic saga
2hr 16min ago
The ideal designer pet

Open thread: As the Andrex puppy makes way for the micro pig, what would be your perfect personalised pet?
2hr 46min ago
Lucre poisoned New Labour. Now for an antidote

Polly Toynbee: A budget for fairness and a living wage can uphold the party's true values – trashed by the greed of Blair and his acolytes
8hr 46min ago
Samantha Cameron: No place for cynicism, but this pregnancy will do polling no harm

Michael White: Samantha Cameron's pregnancy will be a boost to the Tory leader's credentials as a family man who really does like being with his kids
11hr 12min ago
GOP, step away from the Tea Party

Lola Adesioye: After the racist and homophobic insults used at a rally against healthcare reform, Republicans should denounce the Tea Party
12hr 38min ago
President Obama, war is bad romance

Joseph Huff-Hannon: Students taking part in an anti-war march in Washington DC at the weekend felt jilted by the man they helped get elected
14hr 6min ago
Bart Stupak is no healthcare hero

Megan Carpentier: The executive order issued so that anti-abortion Democrats would vote for the healthcare bill places unfair pressure on women
15hr 6min ago
Healthcare reform: the economic effect

Tim Fernholz: While the healthcare bill is moderate in ambition and scope, it will ultimately have far-reaching effects in both the public and private sector
15hr 26min ago
The Common Entrance automatons

Francis Gilbert: Wellington College's head knocks state 'factory schools', yet his entrance exams see children being drilled as early as year four
16hr 42min ago
Labour's assault on liberty is the undeniable scandal

Henry Porter: Regardless of what lobbying they did, New Labourites such as Patricia Hewitt were guilty of an appalling attack on civil liberties
19hr 10min ago
In defence of multiculturalism

Antony Lerman: Critics are attacking a straw-man version of multiculturalism when they blame it for building a culture of segregation
20hr 16min ago
Separated dads need more support

Jon Davies: Fathers often acquire the status of second-class parents after a split. Let's enshrine in law a presumption of shared parenting
20hr 46min ago
Air pollution is not yesterday's problem

Tim Yeo: Thousands of deaths each year result from the UK's failure to keep air pollutants – especially from traffic – at safe levels

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Henry Porter and Afua Hirsch

A refreshing attitude to human rights | Afua Hirsch
22 Mar 2010, 13:17 GMT
An ID card nation by stealth | Henry Porter
18 Mar 2010, 17:34 GMT
When law firms exploit human rights | Afua Hirsch
17 Mar 2010, 12:20 GMT

Politics. And other stuff
Michael Tomasky on America

Michael Tomasky: What's next in the Senate
22 Mar 2010, 14:32 GMT
Michael Tomasky: Who shouted "baby killer"?
22 Mar 2010, 11:37 GMT
Michael Tomasky on US healthcare bill finally passed by Congress
22 Mar 2010, 8:47 GMT

Free to believe
Andrew Brown on belief and unbelief

Pope Benedict's apology | Andrew Brown
20 Mar 2010, 14:17 GMT
Celibacy and child abuse | Andrew Brown
19 Mar 2010, 7:15 GMT
A leader who wished to end the crisis would sack Cardinal Bernard Law
17 Mar 2010, 23:04 GMT

Thread of the day

Speaking up for scientists

Philip Strange: We can be arrogant and nerdish, but overall scientists do not set out to deceive themselves or the public

You said it
In MP's sleaze: Byers for sale gothicform points out that if the undercover investigators had gone ahead and paid Byers, he may have been guilty of a criminal offence
In The ties that bind America to Israel are beginning to fray and break, JRuskin argues that Ban Ki-Moon's official condemnation of new settlements is a sure sign that the international community is turning against Israel
In Strike undermines Labour poll hopes, KTBFFH says that using the BA strike to attack Labour will backfire on the Tories, as invoking the Thatcher spirit will undermine the efforts to reform the party image