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Darfur has already become a monument to the world's failure to keep its promises
The desperate haggling that has been going on all week within the United Nations Security Council over Darfur sums up perfectly the inadequate manner in which the world, as a whole, has reacted to the emergency there

Back on track, but still moving far too slowly
There was some rare good news about the railways yesterday. Network Rail, the not-for-profit company that runs Britain's rail infra-structure, announced punctuality has improved

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Regular Columnists

Joan Smith Blair won't regain women's votes until he adopts a more civilised style of debate

Johann Hari The fashion industry feeds off bulimia and starvation

Terence Blacker The BBC should be proud of its discrimination

Miles Kington Where does a writer draw the line?

Commentators

Captain Brian Steidle
'I walked through a field filled with human bones'

Matthew Norman
Our cult of celebrity begins at the top