Inviting rapists and 'company'
THERE HAS been some furore in The Observer over a sermon that Herro Blair delivered on Sunday.

Terror, jobs and the United States election
LAST WEEK'S jobs report brought bad news for President George W. Bush. Amid signs of a slowing economy, the Department of Labor's monthly Employment Report showed that the US created only a few thousand new jobs last month.

Murder and public order
THE CHEERFUL buzz and to and froing of Monday morning had given way to a knot of people speaking in soft, tight tones. Something has to be wrong. No excitement.