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Editorial

Warped views on social care

Friday 27 April 2012

It's a little like being a schizophrenic looking at the world through Alice's looking-glass, being Sir Merrick Cockell.

Shell profits - a case in point

Thursday 26 April 2012

Royal Dutch Shell's latest profit bonanza will anger Morning Star readers, petrol-tanker drivers and motorists more generally.

Chop off the tentacles

Wednesday 25 April 2012

In the same week that a poll by the cross-party-backed Hansard Society showed popular interest in politics at rock bottom we get more evidence of precisely why.

The great house crisis

Tuesday 24 April 2012

Additional pressure on housing supply caused by the siting of the London Olympics may have played its part in causing the immediate crisis in the borough of Newham, but the problem is much more widespread.

France sick of Sarkozy

Monday 23 April 2012

Outgoing French head of state Nicolas Sarkozy has plumbed the electoral depths as the first incumbent president under the Fifth Republic set up by General de Gaulle in 1958 to lose the initial round of his re-election bid.

Blood on the racetracks

Monday 23 April 2012

The decision to go ahead with yesterday's Bahrain Grand Prix brought shame on the sport of Formula One and on its supremo Bernie Ecclestone.

Spitting on the vulnerable

Monday 23 April 2012

If the mark of a civilised society is how it treats its most vulnerable members, then Britain has a long way to ride in the civilisation stakes.

No such thing as a free lunch

Thursday 19 April 2012

Children's Minister Sarah Teather insists that a final decision on eligibility for free school meals will only be made following consultations later this year.

Hague needs to butt out

Wednesday 18 April 2012

Foreign Secretary William Hague has clearly forgotten the first rule in politics - when you're in a hole, stop digging.

Chasing profits at any cost

Tuesday 17 April 2012

The likelihood of government approval for a restart of hydraulic fracturing - "fracking" - to release shale gas in Lancashire would be a retrograde step.