Telegraph Opinion | LeadersLeader columns The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday TelegraphBBC licence should not be used to pay for stars- June 3, 2008 The main problem with the inquiry into the size of the BBC's reward packages for stars is that it addressed the wrong question.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/03/dl0301.xml UN food summit will not solve the crisis- June 2, 2008 There is a bitter irony in the attendance of Robert Mugabe at a UN conference attempting to solve global shortages in food.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/02/dl0204.xml The Olympic Games are a luxury- June 2, 2008 We should stop deluding ourselves that the Olympics represent some kind of "investment": they are a luxury for which we shall have to pay.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/02/dl0202.xml Whistle a happy tune to cope with hard times- June 2, 2008 Recent studies suggest that the key to being happy - or at least, not being sad - is to show emotional restraint.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/02/dl0203.xml Labour traps towns and starves the country- June 2, 2008 Councils need to become largely self-funding, so that incompetence is punished at the ballot box and there is a proper link between taxation and representation.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/02/dl0201.xml Greater care for the child most at risk- June 1, 2008 When a story breaks of the pitiful death of an abused child, it often emerges that its plight was already partly known to social services.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/01/dl0102.xml Johnny Rotten's so pretty- June 1, 2008 It is the final death knell of punk rock: Johnny Rotten, the former Sex Pistols front-man named and famed for the dreadful state of his gnashers, has had his teeth fixed.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/01/dl0103.xml These rubbish schemes that cost the Earth- June 1, 2008 For centuries, rubbish has been at the very heart of the understood bargain between citizens and their civic authorities. Recently, however, something has gone horribly awry in that long-standing agreement.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/01/dl0101.xml |