Tim Watkin Dec 07 07, 10:00pm: Credit card companies' aggressive marketing can verge on the rediculous. But the culture of debt in America is no laughing matter
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David Roberts Dec 07 07, 09:00pm: The progressive energy bill - as passed by the House of Representatives - encouraged renewables and told oil and car makers to bugger off
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Tom Standage Dec 07 07, 08:00pm: Until now, we've seen the real and virtual worlds as mutually exclusive. But the new information technologies are blending them seamlessly
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Joseph Stiglitz Dec 07 07, 07:30pm: The Bali summit: Countries generating emissions must pay the cost, and the fairest and simplest way of forcing them to do so is through tax
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Damon Linker Dec 07 07, 07:00pm: Romney's speech on faith was not an appeal for tolerance but a promise to uphold the divisive ideology of George Bush and the religious right
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Joseph Harker Dec 07 07, 06:30pm: The government's appointment of black role models to lead disaffected kids to the path of righteousness is beyond parody
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Melissa McEwan Dec 07 07, 06:00pm: If Hillary Clinton can attack an opponent for something he wrote at kindergarten aged six, then why stop there?
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Philippe Sands Dec 07 07, 05:30pm: The waterboarding controversy has lifted the veil on the fact that the Bush White House gave the CIA a green light to use illegal torture techniques
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Agnes Poirier Dec 07 07, 05:00pm: The French approve discipline: even their children, it seems, agree with smacking. But it must be done as an aesthetic practice - very correctly
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Gregor Gall Dec 07 07, 04:30pm: The police may be moving closer to being 'workers in uniform'. But would they ever really go on strike?
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Peter Tatchell: Instead of embracing Robert Mugabe as an honoured guest, Portugal should arrest him on torture charges
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Sarfraz Manzoor: Some Cif writers will stoop to anything to attract more comments on their threads
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Jonathan Steele: When resistance leaders are given an assurance that the Iraq occupation will end completely, real negotiations can begin
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Geoffrey Alderman: Had David Abrahams donated funds in an open manner, transparency would have saved him from the antisemitic rumours he had hoped to avoid
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Abe Hayeem: Plans by Israel to extend an illegally annexed area in East Jerusalem show a complete disregard for Annapolis and the entire peace process
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John Harris: Genuflecting to business, the government has again blocked EU reforms on temporary employees - a shortsighted move that will end in social strife
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Juliet Lyon: The building of giant new prisons entrenches the use of jails as social dustbins. It will backfire on ministers
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Michael Rosen: Poetry is not about right and wrong answers and does not have testable outcomes, but Ofsted's call for more variety in teaching it is welcome
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The planned increase in jail capacity is a disastrous admission by Labour that it expects its social programmes to fail
PCs have a multitude of uses, but, as a string of recent scandals illustrate, private information storage is not one of them
