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Cif at the polls

Editors' picks

Brown's gaffe is nothing short of a disaster

Lance Price: The PM has just lost the votes of hundreds of thousands of people who agree with Gillian Duffy

Ed Balls as leader would be a gift to Cameron

Martin Kettle: The Tories are foolish to want to remove Ed Balls from parliament. He could be their greatest asset

The left-leaning voter's paradox: for a radical change, go the same old way

Jonathan Freedland: Our electoral system's insane reality is that Lib Dem dreams will depend on the Labour party still doing well at the polls

Let Clegg enjoy his moment. Next week the horror begins

Simon Jenkins: A coalition will split his own party and make no progress on PR. His best bet is to grab a plum job and quit the Lib Dems

Why I 'ambushed' Cameron over special-needs schooling

David Cameron and Jonathan Bartley
Jonathan Bartley: To include children with special needs in mainstream schools takes commitment and a lot of work. Yes, it requires 'bias'

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Editors' picks

Arizona law inflames immigration row

Sahil Kapur: Arizona's law is a serious setback for civil rights – and provides a major political impetus to restructure the nation's immigration laws

No more oil on troubled waters

Kate Sheppard: The Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster will wreak havoc on coastal ecosystems. We need clean, safe energy – not more offshore drilling

Women have gone missing, and new sexists are dusting off old theories

Natasha Walter: If we want more female faces in culture and politics, we must reject the notion that women are 'different creatures'

Tel Aviv liberals are true Israelis too

Aluf Benn: Our critics accuse us of living in a hedonistic bubble, but we are proud of having built a thriving secular society here

Getting a laugh out of disability

Nicola Clark: I hope Ofcom upholds my complaint against C4. It's no joke when people make fun of disability – I know, because of my kids

A pain in the ark

Adam Rutherford: Relics, from Noah's ark ('discovered' in Turkey) to bits of the cross, are fundamentally silly. Yet this trivial fascination endures

The mystery of Naomi Campbell and the blood diamond

Hadley Freeman: You may not have heard this story. Allow me to lower your brow. And then mop it

John Harris's election tour

  • Leicester South: Asian voters mull Iraq and potholes

    Video Video (8min 49sec), 27 Apr 2010: Video: John Harris visits the volatile Labour-Lib Dem marginal of Leicester South and hears the shifting concerns of young British Asian voters

Poll

Suffer the children?

It's now looking like Tintin in the Congo may be banned in the native land of its renowned reporter. In our more sensitive times, should parents let their children near books with socially unpalatable material?

(78%)

(22%)

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