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Leading article: Diplomacy has not yet run its course with Iran

The world should tread carefully over Tehran's nuclear programme

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Leading article: A new force in British banking?

Monday, 8 February 2010

In 2008 a Spanish armada succeeded where the first failed. At the height of the financial crisis, the Spanish banking giant Santander, which already owned Abbey, was strong enough to sail into British waters and snap up the stricken Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley. These opportunistic acquisitions doubled Santander's UK branch network.

Leading article: Island rivals

Monday, 8 February 2010

It is to be the cross of St George versus the Welsh Dragon once again. Fresh from the fierce encounter at Twickenham on Saturday in the Six Nations rugby tournament, England and Wales were drawn yesterday in the same qualifying group for the 2012 European football championships hosted by Poland and Ukraine.

Leading article: Sceptics have their uses

Sunday, 7 February 2010

The climate change sceptics have done us all a favour. This may seem a curious view for a newspaper so committed to the cause of environmental sustainability. But, by challenging the consensus view of global warming, the sceptics have tested the flabbier assumptions of that consensus and forced the proponents of the majority view to sharpen their arguments.

Eurozone faces its most difficult test yet

Saturday, 6 February 2010

Leading article: It is impossible to rule out a panic by investors in which they stop buying Greek debt altogether. That would plunge the country into a downward spiral and possibly even force it out of the eurozone.

Leading article: Parliamentarians on trial

Saturday, 6 February 2010

Hard on the heels of Sir Thomas Legg's final report on MPs' expenses came the announcement from the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, that three MPs and one member of the House of Lords were to be charged under the Theft Act. Cue, fierce objections from the Parliamentarians concerned and – we suspect – a rather unseemly sense of disappointment among the public at large.

Leading article: Football not behaving badly

Saturday, 6 February 2010

If every man who had an extramarital affair were dismissed from his job, Britain might well seize up the very next day. Nor is there any reason why personal morality should loom any larger in the world of football, even the world of the national team. In any collective, though, stability and cohesion must be paramount, which is why Fabio Capello took the decision he did, and why John Terry is no longer England captain.

MPs must not fight reform

Friday, 5 February 2010

Leading article: Most voters would agree with the conclusions of Sir Thomas Legg on expenses.

Leading article: Easing off – but only for now

Friday, 5 February 2010

Does the Bank of England's decision yesterday to end its £200bn quantitative easing programme (printing money in plain language) signal the end of the recession and the return to more normal monetary conditions? Or is it merely a pause?

Leading article: Fat chance

Friday, 5 February 2010

The sumo wrestler Asashoryu has quit the sport after being accused of drunkenly attacking a man outside a Tokyo nightclub. One must assume that Asashoryu is to blame since it would be a brave individual indeed who picked a fight with a sumo, not least one of the most successful wrestlers in the sport's history.

Leading article: A Green Paper that starts to ask the right questions

Thursday, 4 February 2010

Whoever forms the next government, defence will be in the firing line

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