New look

Bulldozing a path through democracy

Whatever happened to accountability? Decisions on big projects will be made by a superquango

Knife crime: we need to fear the law

We have got to stop seesawing between harshness and leniency if we want to stop street violence

We're a nation of traffic wardens

Every new initiative that is set up increases the distrust we feel for the State

Algae: the big idea for future energy

Huge investment is needed in innovative technologies to give us energy in the future

Take a nudge in the right direction

A new way to decide: we should be free to make choices but coaxed away from the worst ones

Churchgoing isn't always religious

Britain is still a Christian country, even if attendances have been declining for a century

The glass ceiling in women's heads

Women in their thirties often face the next move up the career ladder with dread

Government with a New York accent

A style that is more open and more accountable: there is much to learn from New York's mayor

Gordon Brown's brazen fiddle

He has been exposed as putting political advantage before principle even on the issue that he is supposed to care most about - poverty

For once, banks aren't being greedy

The most imprudent thing banks could do would be to heed Gordon Brown's call for rate cuts

Can we let terrorists go free?

As we get tangled up in human rights law, Abu Qatada and others escape deportation

Why are we going back to coal?

This Governments antediluvian policy of backing a new coal-fired power station is absurd

Credit crunch: learn from the US

Compare the Bank of England's dithering with the decisiveness across the Atlantic

The EU vote: a shameful, squalid moment

Parliament this week connived with Brussels to give away its power

Biofuels cannot save the planet

Importing biofuels risks raising food prices and razing forests, with significant quantities of energy used for delivery