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Discrimination in the market place
If equal treatment means charging the same price for the same product, what equality requires depends on how ‘same product’ is defined
The Merkel mettle
The accumulating evidence of Angela Merkel’s indecisiveness and political vulnerability is a cause for concern. For Europe’s sake, she needs to recover her old mettle
Goodbye Galliano
Dior’s star may have felt that his alleged gross anti-Semitism, captured on video, was provocative but his dismissal will hopefully have disabused him of any such erroneous idea
Why China fears the Arab spring
Although Beijing has retreated from some of its grosser intrusions into the personal space of its citizens, fundamental freedoms, especially the right to exercise political choice, continue to be denied
Ireland’s winter of discontent
Ireland’s future depends on bigger forces than Dublin politics. But what the new leaders do will matter fro Europe
Washington heads for a shutdown
The US recovery is not yet secure. A bill that cuts spending gently at most in the remainder of this year, together with agreement on more sweeping tax and spending measures to come, would be the best outcome
The high cost of high-speed rail in UK
In an ideal world the London to Birmingham line might be a wonderful thing to have; at a time of tough choices on public spending it looks hard to justify
Greece’s struggles
George Papandreou’s job now is to persuade the silent majority of Greeks who do not benefit from insider privileges that they will ultimately gain from the reforms
Call time on GMT
We are only weeks away from the blissful moment when clocks spring forward and we let light into our lives – let us embrace British Summer Time for all the year
Britain and Libya
Whatever the short-term instability, the UK’s long-term interest lies in the advance of countries such as Libya and Egypt towards much greater political and economic openness