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.

'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

It's about time these eurosceptics stopped Laeken about

JULIAN PRIESTLEY questions recent arguments against the Lisbon Treaty

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

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analyses the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee’s report on Iran and worries its conclusions are already out of date

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

Expect the lights to burn late in the Lords

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

Enter Sir Bob, a man ahead of his time

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

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

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

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

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

The global route to a nuclear future

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

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

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

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

Why is life not getting better in Afghanistan?

SULTAN BARAKAT believes that for reconstruction to be successful it must start from the perspective of the Afghan

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

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

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

The business case for carbon offsets

JONATHAN SHOPLEY makes the case for carbon offsetting as an essential element of business strategy on climate change

This is not a task the world can just leave to business

PAUL DICKINSON puts the role that British business and government has to play in climate change in the global context

Ecomagination: taking on big challenges

For GE, each product must meet two strict criteria — it must bring the customer a strong environmental benefit, as well as an operational one, whether higher revenues or lower cost

Carbon disclosure: getting on target

DOUG JOHNSTON and JAMES CLOSE make the case for accuracy and consistency when generating climate change data

First in the driving seat

Here's the good news: we can be green and still grow

BEN VERWAAYEN argues that it will require a new level of co-operation between business and government to meet the climate change targets for 2050

Not Stern Enough

Fiona Harvey talks to LORD STERN and finds that if he were writing his review today, the picture would be even grimmer than the one he painted last time

The good news is that what is right for the world is also right for business

Roderick Crawford talks to PHILIP GREEN, CEO of United Utilities, about his vision for business emission reductions

May Day, a signal for all of us to come to the rescue

LUCY VARCOE sets out the May Day Network's climate change challenge