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Tony Blair the actor, Gordon Brown the grump? No, the split was much deeper

Julian Glover: Blair's book shows how wrong he considered Brown on policy

Sorry General Petraeus, Iraq and Afghanistan are only too similar

Simon Tisdall: If Obama's Iraq handover strategy is anything to go by, any optimism about Afghanistan is deeply misguided

Labour needs the credibility of David and the freshness of Ed

Jonathan Freedland: The Milibands' fight has highlighted their flaws but left many in the party asking: why can't we have the best of both?

My lost Bangladeshi identity

Momtaz Begum-Hossain: Losing my parents showed me culture is not something we teach ourselves. This Ramadan, I feel less Bangladeshi than ever

The sad disappearance of foreign TV

Marianne M Gilchrist: When I was young, European serials offered a view into other worlds. Why do we now limit ourselves to US imports?

Bed bugs: a nightmare on legs

David Shariatmadari: My heart goes out to those New Yorkers battling bed bugs. As I know from experience, the nasty little critters are the stuff of nightmares

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