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Arts for everyone is cheap considering its rich returns

Polly Toynbee: A 25% cut won't be plugged by philanthropy. To take this paltry sum is a politial gesture, not a financial necessity

A history of folly, from the Trojan horse to Afghanistan

Simon Jenkins: By recording failure in meticulous detail, the leaked war logs bear devastating witness to our incompetence

Mail got its knickers in a twist over Emmerdale's 'jam rags'

Hannah Betts: The Mail's objection to Emmerdale's use of 'jam rags' reflects culture's longstanding weirdness about women's private parts

Labour's accusations of gerrymandering are self-defeating

James Graham: Jack Straw has put party interest above public good. The voting reform bill deserves more serious scrutiny

Let EDL thugs demonstrate in Bradford

Sunny Hundal: Our right to demonstrate is one of the pillars of democracy and more important than vague worries over 'community relations'

The Israeli right has a new vision – Jews and Arabs sharing one country

Jonathan Freedland: The one-state solution, once associated with extremists and dreamers, is finding new support in unlikely quarters

Remembering the working-class martyrs of Llanelli

Tim Evans: The deaths of two innocent men during the 1911 Llanelli rail strike deserve to be commemorated on the centenary

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