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|| Theodore Dalrymple on the suicide bombers among us || Report on the impact on anti-terror laws on academics  || Emilie Rutledge on the dollar, oil and Iran's market  || David Aaronovitch on the source of the French riots  || David Halberstam on the social lessons of Hurricane Katrina  || Nicholas Kristof on Mukhtaran Bibi || Report on the accidental release of intelligence costs || Brandon Keim on using nanotechnology to cure cancer || Sasha Frere-Jones on the rise of Houston hip-hop ||

|| Jane Mayer on torture, the CIA and a death in custody || Ambassador says Blair failed to restrain Bush || Amjid Muhammad on fear mongering and Sheikh Omran || Phillip Adams on Gough, Malcolm and the dismissal || William Rees-Mogg on the Pope and Darwin || BOOKS: Scott Turow goes to war    ||

|| Barton Gellman on increased surveillance under anti-terror laws || David Broder on Bush's falling popularity || Maureen Dowd on why men are not fit for high office || Naomi Klein on Latin America's anti-Bush revolt || Report on why Poland's new leaders make Europe nervous || Kofi Annan on future control of the internet  || Byron Calame on journalists and advertorials || MUSIC: Stephen Metcalf on rock snobs ||

|| National round-up early edition ||

|| Richard Ackland won't get fooled again || Tony Fitzgerald on reforming Australian democracy  || Nicholas Lemann on Plame, politics and the press || Jeffrey Goldberg on foreign policy and Iraq  || Collection of essays on Iraq and the Bush Doctrine  || Francis Fukuyama on Islam and European multiculturalism  || Peter Church on Afghanistan's new Parliament  || Hilwiah Roche on why Gandhi didn't win the Nobel prize || D.T. Max on literary Darwinism || Ariel Levy profiles Maureen Dowd || Nicolas Riou on the politics of consumption || Spanish s*x guide furore ||

|| Simon Jenkins says don't politicise terrorist criminals || David Broder on President 'Push Over' || Maureen Dowd on the paranoid White House || Stephen Walt says Iraq is Bush's fault || Martin Indyk says Iran's bluster is serious || Wynton Marsalis on jazz citizenship and New Orleans || Mukhtaran Bibi 'woman of the year' || Robert Andrews on the chat room for IT innovators ||

|| Simon Jenkins says don't politicise terrorist criminals || David Broder on President 'Push Over' || Maureen Dowd on the paranoid White House || Stephen Walt says Iraq is Bush's fault || Martin Indyk says Iran's bluster is serious || Wynton Marsalis on jazz citizenship and New Orleans || Mukhtaran Bibi 'woman of the year' || Robert Andrews on the chat room for IT innovators ||

||  Dina Exxat on the Arab Leaque's role in Iraq ||  Robert Skidelsky on the rise of China ||  Wang Shuhai says China needs philosophers ||  David Clark says Blair will replace Britain's nuclear weapons ||  Laurie Oakes on the 30th anniversary of the dismissal ||  Paul Kahn on reconciling the erotic with the political ||  Alister McGrath on atheists hoping for a new Enlightenment ||  Caitlin Moran on this culturally empty decade ||  Report on the Guardian's social, ethical, environmental audit || 

|| Peter Canby on oil drilling in the Arctic || Report says Dubai fantasy islands damage environment || Collection of essays on Israel || Bush nominates Samuel Alito for Supreme Court || Report on findings into Gulf of Tonkin incident kept secret || Patrick Seale on the opportunity to change Syria || Report on the censorship of music in the Arab world || John Keegan on the debate over Dresden || Robert Jensen on the power and ethics of p*rnography || Essays on 35 modern innovators || Michael Chorost on his cochlear implant and Bolero || AA Gill on why he doesn't like the English || BOOKS: John Irving's latest ||

|| Boris Johnson flays the UK anti-terrorism laws || Andrew Sullivan on Bush and the indictment  || Paul Krugman welcomes Ben Bernanke    || Tony Blair on tackling climate change    || Seymour Hersh interviews Scott Ritter on Iraq  || Martin Bell says Ireland should not honour Easter 1916    || Emily Bell on editing a newspaper for the global village  || Lynton Crosby on the wonderful land down under  || TECHNOLOGY: Digital camera update  || Christine Rosen on the children of the narcissistic generation || Studs Terkel on the White Sox curse  ||

|| Tony Parkinson attacks 'medieval' anti-terror laws || Column says war supporters can not blame Bush incompetence  || Ghaith Abdul-Ahad joins a group of Iraqi insurgents  || La repubblica translations  || Timothy Garton Ash on Europe's challenge from Asia || Report on Harriet Miers stepping down  || Report on challenge to climate sceptics  || Elisabeth Eaves on the price of a lap dance || Albert Einstein on science and religion || Dylan Evans on the loss of utopian idealism || Science on how 'sleeping on it' works ||

|| Laura Rozen on the neo-con Niger yellowcake forgeries || Kristof and Tierney on the Plame affair  || Stephen Roach on the challenges awaiting Bernanke  || John Bercow says it is time to act against Burma || Eugene Robinson on Condoleezza Rice's race denial || Report on Australia's anti-terrorism laws  || Alexander Zaitchik on why small is beautiful again  || Christopher Hitchens on the latest Galloway allegations || Scientist discovers how to stop tables wobbling ||

Technical glitches: Both The Daily Briefing's and Webdiary's service providers have given us access trouble today. Webdiary was off-line for an hour or so this afternoon, and we have been unable to post new articles or publish comments until now.

Wayne's ISP problems began in the early hours of the morning (when he begins his daily trawl) and he later informed Webdiary and his subscribers that technical difficulties had hindered the production of today's Daily Briefing. Fortunately things cleared up just before lunch and Wayne was able to produce this brief but, as always, interesting edition. Wayne says: "tomorrow's will be a biggy".

|| Report says terror laws to be used against activists  || Report on the death of Rosa Parks  || Protecting POTUS from the Onion || In the papers... ||

|| Noam Levy on war's impact on Iraqi children || Investigation into the environmental cost of gold mining || Rebecca Solnit on the democratic revolution in Sth America || Interview on article about Bush's foreign policy || David Brooks says Bush is the future of conservatism || Michael Wolff on the UK newspaper wars || David Horowitz on the life and death of Susan Lydon || Report on the appointment of Greenspan's replacement || REST: Twins singing for white supremacism || Jeff Hewitt is unimpressed by the 10 commandments (satire) || BOOKS: 'Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and Its Triumphs' edited by John Pilger ||

|| Chas Savage makes a seditious call for revolt || Bernard Crick wants a humanist-religious alliance || Misleading editorial on US politics || Byron Calame on the failings of Miller and the Times || Maureen Dowd criticises her colleague Judith Miller || Rami Khouri on the UN report into the Hariri assassination || Rory Stewart on what is emerging from democracy in Iraq || Robin Blackburn and Oliver Kamm debate Chomsky || Christopher Caldwell worries about humanity in a virtual world || Report on the rise of the anti-consumerism 'Puritans' || Columnist only discusses the placement of 'only' ||

As Wayne said in this morning's edition of the Daily Briefing: "The long piece on US politics ... (and a messy head cold), slowed things down... a number of articles have not made it into this edition. Two editions in one day are never ideal, but if the energy levels hold up, that's what will happen today." And he has delivered.

|| Bruce Bartlett on the Bush-conservative divorce || Dan Froomkin on the 'cabal' that ran the Iraq war || Report on Miers' progress toward the Supreme Court || Profile of the woman who blew the whistle on Halliburton || Geoffrey Stone & Richard Posner debate anti-terrorism laws || John Keegan on the trial of Saddam Hussein || Eric Hobsbawm on the benefits of the Jewish diaspora || Michael Bosscher says the law favours victims || Theodore Dalrymple on religion and society ||

|| Matt Welch on the Miller-Rove-Plame scandal || George Packer on the state of US politics || Irvine Welsh on crime and violence in Scotland || David Jaffe on scholars, jazz and Sonny Rollins ||

|| Kenneth Davidson says politicians threaten Parliament || Scott Borgerson on the geo-politics of global warming    || Michael O'Hanlon on progress in Iraq    || Roger Cohen on Europe's move to the right || Max Boot on what to do about 'our thug' in Azerbaijan || Thomas Friedman says Iraqis find the US a bad democratic || Report on US refusal to allow Darfur report at UN || David Aaronovitch on health fatalities and the flu scare  || Reem Nafie on torture in Guantanamo Bay || Interview with Orhan Pamuk ahead of his trial ||

|| Ross Gittins on the irrational world of economics || Alan Kohler on the impact of technology on media laws  || Robert Reich on the replacement for Alan Greenspan  || Report says China to tackle economic inequality || Hatem Mukhlis says Iraq constituion will breed chaos || Paul Krugman on free-trade and the US wage freeze || Correct link for the devil and the school band || Report says Bush to appoint someone to run the US (satire) ||

|| Melvin Laird on Vietnam and the lessons for Iraq || Martin Kettle on getting a sensible response to terrorism || Nick Cohen on secularist Maryam Namazie || James Harkin on Adam Phillips and Freud  || Ray Kurzweil & Bill Joy on the flu genome || Noam Chomsky the number one intellectual  || Kathy Brewis on painter Samuel Palmer  || Peter Preston on fiction vs literary fiction  || Song mentioning devil banned from school band  || In the papers ||

|| Timothy Garton Ash on the prospects for change in Iran || David Brooks on the end of the patriarchy || Anthony Browne says Europe's flat tax debate is flat lining || Wendy Orent says there is no evidence for flu pandemic || Nicholas Kristof on US bullying over the ICC || Report on toilet training || Geoff Porter on fatwa rules for soccer || Report on criticism of Narnia movies || SATIRE: Columnist eats sh*t sandwich || 'The Size of Nations' by Alesina and Spolaore || In the papers: ||

|| Rebecca Solnit on disasters, human behaviour and economics || David Burchell on The Latham Diaries || David Brooks on conservative divisions over Bush and Miers || Alexander Downer on the fight against WMDs || Amin Saikal says Iraq threatens Middle East sectarian balance || Robert Winston on the reasons human believe in God || John Castel on why Greenpeace is a mess || Peter Schjeldahl on the art and power of graphic novels || John Nichols on hating Bush after death || In the papers: National, Opinion, Business round-up ||

Message from Webdiary General Manager David Roffey: For a trial period starting today, we will be publishing Wayne Sanderson's The Daily Briefing. As Wayne's own description of the service states: "The Daily Briefing provides a morning round-up of the local newspapers plus selected quality articles from international publications ...  the best writing, analysis, social commentary, critical thinking and humour from around the world, drawing on newspapers, magazines, think tanks and web sites everywhere. ... It is your guide through information overload. Today, an excerpt..."