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Editors' picks
Big Oil's Iraq deals are the greatest stick-up in history
Naomi Klein: The country's invaders should be paying billions in reparations not using the war as a reason to pillage its richest resource
The appetite for biofuel starves the poor
Benjamin Senauer: The evidence is mounting. The biofuels bonanza is forcing millions in the developing world into poverty and hunger
Let a church so fond of division test its worth in the marketplace of belief
Simon Jenkins: Anglicanism is often the last servant of the poor; that it can tear itself apart in an absurd imperial argument is a tragedy
This byelection could be the most important ever
Martin Kettle: It would be not just a disaster for Brown to lose a seat like Glasgow East, but a sign of wider Labour disintegration
Hitchens's tortured explanation
Michael Otterman: After having been waterboarded, Christopher Hitchens recognises that it is torture. But still he defends its use.
Under judicial review
Eric Allison: The BBC drama Criminal Justice has been criticised for its portrayal of barristers, but in my experience it's all too realistic
