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£200,000 for a headteacher? Does that strike you as being fair?

Will Hutton; The case of headteacher Mark Elms has given us the perfect opportunity to analyse what constitutes fairness

Labour needs to talk about Gordon. Otherwise it will repeat its failures

Andrew Rawnsley: Labour will not grasp why it lost unless it talks about why Gordon Brown was such a catastrophic leader

In the frozen waters of Everest, I learned the value of humility

Lewis Pugh: I had to perform a U-turn to accomplish the hardest task I have ever faced. And a volte-face is our only hope of solving climate change

Polanski's 'genius' is only a defence to the morally vacuous

Catherine Bennett: The defenders of Roman Polanski, like those of Raoul Moat, are guilty of putting loyalty before humanity

Mandelson deserves better than these snide shots

Barbara Ellen: The reaction to Peter Mandelson's The Third Man has been predictable and depressing

Marital fidelity? What a terribly common idea

Emma Soames: The wives of wealthy men know better than to quibble when their husbands take a mistress

Love is… our very own TV show

Eva Wiseman: Only when celebrity couples allow the cameras in is their marriage validated

The fine art of making a drama out of a crisis

Nick Cohen: An underground theatre group is shining a light on the tyranny that rules in Belarus

What's golf's handicap? The St Andrews sexists

Kevin McKenna: Women's exclusion from many leading courses puts Scotland and its politicians to shame

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Ryanair v easyJet: the ultimate basho

EasyJet founder Stelios Haji Ioannou has won a libel case against Ryanair, obliging its boss, Michael O'Leary, to pay damages and apologise. O'Leary previously challenged his business rival to a sumo bout: who would win that?

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Politics. And other stuff
Michael Tomasky on America
Free to believe
Andrew Brown on belief and unbelief

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