Editor Ian Murray's Blog

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Banging drum of democracy will not help Greece situation

It is interesting that the Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, summons the very real fact his nation invented democracy to bolster his government’s argument for a favourable solution to the debt crisis wracking its citizens.

BBC won’t insult ISIL killers

Just another evening on the motorway

Anti-fluoride campaign now needs to focus on stopping child tooth decay

Future of the NHS in our own hands

Family tragedy shouldn’t have been used in debate

Back to the future

Battle of wills over school run parking

Change is still to come for the UK

Freedom is worth the fight

Chancellor placed in choppy waters

Gove’s ‘sacking’ is unlikely to win any Tory votes back

Where did the World Cup go wrong for us?

Why we must keep traditional Sunday afternoons sacrosanct

Time for Southampton to fight its corner

Wild Planet display is just, well, too tame really

What makes us British - and who should decide?

Comment: A harsh lesson for Saints' starlet Luke Shaw

Time for a truce in this battle between our ports

A lot of hot air on gas holders

Three Saints players or a children's hospital - which would you choose?

Homework needed in morality lessons

I would complain to the BBC, but they wouldn't understand my accent

Any people that eat faggots and peas as a national dish deserve special nation status surely?

Do the makers of Immigration Street know something we don't?

Every negative can be presented as a positive, as Mr Salmond understands

Shopping could leave me prone to nice lie down

Uneasy at idea of Miller witch-hunt

Help me to save the BBC - from itself

Living wage looks fair - but is it fair for all?

Tum turns heads - but will Chris Huhne care that much?

Sorry, this exhibition leaves me all at sea

The nanny state paddles in

Who can say if Cortese will return - but I wouldn't rule it out

We're in a jam - and this is no way to run a city

Vive la difference - or maybe not so different after all

Time to teach our children life on TV is not reality - and often not very funny

How the Liver Birds could solve the housing crisis

All I want for 2014

Family from hell? Or the council that doesn't care?

Of course we should pay our MPs more - just not most of this lot

Best not to shout about what we have to offer

Smoke clears to reveal the winners and losers

Hidden dangers in the late-night pub levy

Double standards of celebs with profits to make

A free press is a jewel – a rough diamond perhaps, but still precious

This would be a charter for control by the state

The party's over - but for us it didn't seem to start

Of course the British people don't want war - who does?

David Gower has the right idea - just the wrong questions

How the lovely Mishal may inadvertently end 300-years o British history

Just because Henry VIII couldn't email doesn't mean the Royal Mail shouldn't evolve

Oh pay them more and get it done with

An incentive or a bribe? Either way it will put the gas burners under local democracy