Leaders

Screening for cancer

The case for routine screening of women in their 40s has been overstated, for political reasons as well as medical ones

Five into NATO won’t go

Enlarging too far, too fast, could bust the alliance

India’s old man in a hurry

Sitaram Kesri’s grab for power does no credit to him or his party

Breaking the ice

India and Pakistan have a rare opportunity to put the past behind them

Vanishing peace

A government of national unity is Israel’s best hope of retrieving it

Arm-twisting Latin America

When it “decertifies” neighbours in the war on drugs, the United States achieves more insult than effect

Tobacco’s Brutus

The treachery of Bennett LeBow should encourage Big Tobacco to drop its Big Lie that smoking is safe

Labour isn’t thinking

A host of questions remain over the Labour Party’s employment policies

The hope for Zaire

A fresh start, not a ceasefire

Russia refreshed

A cautious cheer for a reshuffled Kremlin

Can he win?

Why John Major will have an uphill struggle to win Britain's general election on May 1st