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Anthony Sampson: The failure to inspire Europeans with a common sense of purpose is a tragedy
11 June 2004
I am surprised the voice of the Continent is so weak at a time when it is most needed as a counterweight to the US

Patrick Cockburn: The street speaks - Iraq's UN-backed government is made up of CIA pawns
10 June 2004
Iraqis are highly sceptical that the US occupation will, as promised, end on 30 June and predict worse fighting to come if real power is not handed over.

E Jane Dickson: From homespun hero to philosopher king
10 June 2004
Even for those disinclined to look back on a Reagan golden era, death cancels all debts

E Jane Dickson: 'I know it's important for children to have their secrets'
10 June 2004
The sign on Conor's door is unequivocal: "No GURLS Alowed. Enclooding Mum.

Billy Bragg: In the shadow of extreme nationalism
08 June 2004
The EU, for all its faults, is the ultimate guarantor of the peace the D-Day generation fought to win

Godfrey Hodgson: The true legacy of Ronald Reagan
08 June 2004
Look at the closed minds and hard hearts of the conservatives who staff this administration

David Usborne: They call it rubbish - I call it furniture
08 June 2004
I have found my tribe in Manhattan. I didn't know it until now, but I discover that I am a disciple of mongo. A mildly eccentric band, we work furtively, often under the cover of darkness. We rummage in the gutter and are not averse to plunging fully clothed into reeking rubbish skips. We have never been to Ikea.

Tom Shales: What George Bush could learn from the Gipper
07 June 2004
Ronald and Nancy often beat lampooners to the punch by whimsically dissing themselves

Talking about my nicotine-stained generation
07 June 2004
Young women smoke to keep their weight down. Young men smoke because they are nervous

A C Grayling: Above and beyond
06 June 2004
Heroism has many guises, but none as humbling as the sort we are leaving behind

Michael Meacher: The fuel debate is not about 2p, but the future of the planet
06 June 2004
The fact that Gordon Brown has agreed to "review" his plan to raise fuel duty by 2p per litre in September - and the consequent calling off of all but one of the planned fuel protests yesterday - has been greeted with sighs of relief all round.

Dom Joly: I'm waiting for Swindon to name a road after me. Joly Good Drive, anyone?
06 June 2004
I am very excited. I was lying naked in my garden, enjoying the Cotswold sun while doubling up as a scarecrow, when I heard Mariella Frostrup's gravelly voice.

Errors & Omissions by Guy Keleny: There's bewilderment, and then there's obtuseness
05 June 2004
Perhaps I am not so far out of touch with popular culture as I imagined. At least I seem to be able to understand the utterances of a chap called Usher better than the reporter who interviewed him.

Robert Hanks: It's insane - I've lost my right to vote
05 June 2004
Within a few seconds, she established that my wife and I had both been erased due to 'clerical error'

Anthony Sampson: The trouble with fat cats is they lose touch with their customers
05 June 2004
I remember meeting Lois Sieff, who asked me what underwear I was wearing, then lectured me on the merits of M&S;

My Week: The artist and joint co-ordinator of this year's Royal Academy of Arts summer exhibition
05 June 2004
SUNDAY

I wake up at my house in Oxfordshire, where I have a second studio and have been spending the past 20 years with my wife turning a sheep meadow into a garden woodland.

The Saturday Profile: Robert Kilroy-Silk; the self-styled saviour of Britain
05 June 2004
You'd probably have to hammer a stake through the heart of Robert Kilroy-Silk to finish him off properly.

Paul Vallely: Political courage is needed to tackle our asylum myths
05 June 2004
Migration has been one of the driving forces of global economic growth - so why do we see it with such dark irrationality?

Yvonne Roberts: Now showing: a story of excess at the cinema
03 June 2004
The major chains are on a crusade to pump up England's youth to triple their size

John Whitelegg: The myth of Mr Kennedy's opposition to the war
02 June 2004
I can think of no more unprincipled stand than to say the war is unjust but we support it anyway

Annalisa Barbieri: It takes practice to be this imperfect
02 June 2004
I grew up with two mantras ringing in my ears.

E Jane Dickson: 'It was easy to be gung-ho in 1916, until you got there and smelled the Somme'
02 June 2004
Half term crowds are shuffling nose-to-tail through "The Trench Experience" at the Imperial War Museum.

Gordon Brown: We need irreversible progress in tackling world poverty
01 June 2004
On current progress we will fail to meet the Goals in Africa not just for 10 years but for 100 years

Paul Vallely: They don't make traffic jams like they used to
31 May 2004
Until recently, lay-bys were echoes of a lost world in which nice old ladies sold flowers

Tim Lott: I have three of them. But children and fathers don't mix
30 May 2004
Margaret Hodge's proposal that men should be entitled to six months' paid leave on the birth of a child will be welcomed by a lot of people, a few of whom might be men.