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  The five keys Gordon needs to open the door in Darfur

  ALEX DE WAAL analyses the possible outcomes of the Darfur summit planned by Gordon Brown

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  The shadow over Brown’s plans to change the way we are governed

  ANDREW BLICK examines the strengths and weaknesses of the Constitutional Renewal white paper and draft Bill, and suggests we need to take it seriously

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  A People's War

  BRENDA BOARDMAN imagines what could be achieved if the government recruited 50 million citizens to the cause, instead of just talking to the few in the energy business

Erratum

In the print magazine for this issue, the tables of figures accompanying the above article by Brenda Boardman were incorrectly printed. The correct figures can be found here: Download pdf of article containing correct figures. The main pdf on the website also contains the correct figures, available for subscribers to download from the Print Magazine section.

Features this month

• Special Report on Climate Change

  BITC May Day Special Report on Climate Change, May 2008

Also this issue

• Paying over the odds for peace in Northern Ireland

  MARTYN FRAMPTON reflects on Jonathan Powell's account of the peace process and is left wondering things are as good as they could have been.

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• 'Must read' — a debt we all owe to the poor

  DONALD HIRSCH explains why the recent report by the Work and Pensions Committee is required reading

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• It's about time these eurosceptics stopped Laeken about

  JULIAN PRIESTLEY questions recent arguments against the Lisbon Treaty

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• What theTreaty of Lisbon means to Britain, in 300 pages that just give the facts

  Lord Grenfell reports on his committee’s report into the impact of the Treaty of Lisbon

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• Britain and Iran? We know far more than we think

  ALI ANSARI analyses the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee’s report on Iran and worries its conclusions are already out of date

  From the current edition

• Fuelling controversy

  DAVID CARSLAW suggests that biofuels have an important contribution to make providing their impacts can be properly quanitified

• Why this horse-trade in Europe means that gas costs more than it should

  It’s time that EU member states set aside the interests of their national monopolies and put consumers before companies, MARK CARNE believes

  From the current edition

• Expect the lights to burn late in the Lords

  The Energy Bill is sure to excite much discussion in the Lords, STEPHEN LADYMAN predicts

  From the current edition

• Enter Sir Bob, a man ahead of his time

  NICK RAYNSFORD believes the Housing and Regeneration Bill steers the right course between conflicting pressures

  From the current edition

• Anyone for stopping the growth in air travel?

  KEN WOOLMER wonders whether the consensus in the Lords on the Climate Change Bill will last once it starts to be implemented

  From the current edition

• Going out a lot better than it came in

  The Children and Young Persons Bill was well received by the Lords, and goes to the Commons much improved, reports BARONESS MOLLY MEACHER

  From the current edition

• So what price for two more years of failure?

  OLIVER HEALD MP brings out the highlights from the Commons debate on the Education and Skills Bill

• So far, so good, but best not to get too misty-eyed about it yet

  JOHN PENROSE MP gives a cautiously optimistic report on the progress of the Pensions Bill through the Commons

  From the current edition

• The last of the Empire that sometimes sees red when they talk to London

  RODERICK CRAWFORD considers the state of political relations between the UK government and UK overseas territories

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• The global route to a nuclear future

  MALCOLM GRIMSTON argues that liberalised markets are now opening the way to a reemergence of nuclear energy

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• Urgent: what to do with 100 tonnes of plutonium

  GEOFFREY BOULTON raises the alarm about UK stockpiling of separated plutonium and offers some ways forward

  From the current edition

• The entente fraternelle that London dares not enter

  CHRISTIAN LEQUESNE believes that Nicolas Sarkozy has opened the door to a new relationship between the UK and France

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• It went down well in Boston but will it wash in Washington?

  PAUL TAYLOR weighs up Gordon Brown's speech in Boston in the context of the US presedential election in November