Snow storm after Bush fire
How will the president’s press secretary answer his own pointed criticisms of his new boss
Posted on April 26, 2006 Posted to The Guardian
The women who played Ayn Rand
Alida Valli and Helen Mirren have both gone on to greater glory.
Posted on April 25, 2006 Posted to The Guardian
Pot shots
The war in Iraq is bad enough. But the war on drugs has lasted longer and cost more money and more American lives.
Posted on April 21, 2006 Posted to The Guardian
Welcome to America, President Hu
He’s getting just the right welcome: a 21-gun salute at the White House, dinner at Bill Gates’s house, and protesters everywhere.
Posted on April 21, 2006 Posted to The Guardian
Puritanism is bad business
It is laughable to think a pharmacy wants to discourage the sale of condoms.
Posted on April 20, 2006 Posted to The Guardian
The greatest story never told
US media downplay the great news about declining death rates.
Posted on April 20, 2006 Posted to The Guardian
The wisdom of the Mart
Congratulations to the Estonian winner of the 2006 Milton Friedman prize for advancing liberty.
Posted on April 20, 2006 Posted to The Guardian
Let parents choose
Polly Toynbee writes as if the children belong to her, or to the state.
Posted on April 18, 2006 Posted to The Guardian
Stalin’s songbird
The New Yorker didn’t quite find room to detail Seeger’s long habit of following the Stalinist line.
Posted on April 14, 2006 Posted to The Guardian
The next foreign aid failure
Gordon Brown is promising £8.5bn to fund schooling in developing countries. If only it would work.
Posted on April 13, 2006 Posted to The Guardian



