Fighting Fit

Parents of a Down’s child must make painful choices

I listen with amazement to new parents of Down’s babies describing a rosy future of love, acceptance and independence

Slithery Smith wants a backdoor ban

Could any punter find out for sure that the prostitute of his choice is with him by her choice as well?

Our organs are not for the PM to snatch

Fortunately for the PM, the organ donation taskforce he set up will firmly oppose presumed consent

Forcing birth control on unfit mothers

The cost of bad parents to an individual is terrible, but it is also very high to the rest of society

BBC's chance to return to what it’s good at

It would be a great national loss if the Ross-Brand scandal were used as an excuse to destroy Auntie by all those who would love to see her brought...

Freedom given a dirty name

That is what Britons do. They belch, vomit, copulate and barge their way through public spaces

A black police association - that's racism in action

Public disloyalty like this is unacceptable to any organisation; it is profoundly damaging

English is our prize but teachers are tossing it away

Any self-respecting country would insist that all children learnt to speak the country’s language before anything else

Even child murderers may deserve pity

People who don’t have a disabled child may not understand how difficult and overwhelming it can be

The mistakes of school sex education

The increase in sex education here in recent years has coincided with an explosion of unwanted pregnancies and STDs

Easy ways to cut immigration

A vast army of state sector employees should be redeployed as social care workers

Cynical choice leaves McCain in shreds

In choosing a woman he doesn’t know or understand John McCain reveals a dishonourable lust for office

Leave the fat alone – bullying won’t curb obesity

What prevents obesity is a good income, a good education and good opportunities. Prosperity, in short

Glitter: mad, bad or just dangerous to know?

Few deny Gary Glitter should be on the sex offenders list but he's suffering media martyrdom

I’m not religious, but there’s something about funerals

Funerals are a traditional rite of passage and even non-believers find that religion can rarely be removed from them

To beat extremism we must dissolve religious groups

Separatist Muslim belief is growing among the young and the moderate, tolerant majority must be alarmed by this

Deliver us, minister, from your dreadful incompetence

The Sats fiasco is just one of many eye-stretching recent examples of government incompetence

Britain is creating youths who have nothing to lose

For a young, vital, angry man an Asbo often seems better than Asda

Tolerate sharia, yes, but never respect it

I feel that this constant demand for respect makes a great many people privately very resentful

This equality for women is an injustice for men

It is a shameful thing that the long march towards equality for women has been forced into a dead end of institutionalised inequality for men