1. Will Hutton: Old Father Thames is being sold down the river Mary Riddell: The McCartney meltdown has lessons for all marriages Andrew Rawnsley: Tory taxidermy – how to get yourself stuffed over tax Leader: Fairness, not finance, must decide the right to life Honour at last for conscript miners Top Tory named in offshore tax row McConnell dreams of Atlantic partnership Comment It‘s my cross and I‘m proud to bare it Cristina Odone Sunday October 22, 2006 The Observer I have worn a small gold cross almost every day of my life.

2. Cristina Odone: It‘s my cross and I‘m proud to bare it Will Hutton: Old Father Thames is being sold down the river Mary Riddell: The McCartney meltdown has lessons for all marriages Andrew Rawnsley: Tory taxidermy – how to get yourself stuffed over tax Leader: Fairness, not finance, must decide the right to life Honour at last for conscript miners Top Tory named in offshore tax row McConnell dreams of Atlantic partnership Comment Now we know what we know, why is Blair still in office?

3. Mary Riddell: The McCartney meltdown has lessons for all marriages Andrew Rawnsley: Tory taxidermy – how to get yourself stuffed over tax Leader: Fairness, not finance, must decide the right to life Honour at last for conscript miners Top Tory named in offshore tax row McConnell dreams of Atlantic partnership Comment Old Father Thames is being sold down the river Profit–taking, not customer satisfaction, lies behind the purchase of London‘s water supplier Will Hutton Sunday October 22, 2006 The Observer It is the ultimate act of commercial degeneracy.

4. Cristina Odone: It‘s my cross and I‘m proud to bare it Will Hutton: Old Father Thames is being sold down the river Mary Riddell: The McCartney meltdown has lessons for all marriages Andrew Rawnsley: Tory taxidermy – how to get yourself stuffed over tax Leader: Fairness, not finance, must decide the right to life Honour at last for conscript miners Top Tory named in offshore tax row McConnell dreams of Atlantic partnership Britain shuts the door on new wave of migrants Reid acts on EU‘s latest recruits Attack on ‘kneejerk‘ move Gaby Hinsliff, political editor Sunday October 22, 2006 The Observer The government is to abandon its ‘open–door‘ policy to eastern Europe by restricting the inflow of Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants when their countries join the European Union in January.

5. Cristina Odone: It‘s my cross and I‘m proud to bare it Will Hutton: Old Father Thames is being sold down the river Mary Riddell: The McCartney meltdown has lessons for all marriages Andrew Rawnsley: Tory taxidermy – how to get yourself stuffed over tax Leader: Fairness, not finance, must decide the right to life Honour at last for conscript miners Top Tory named in offshore tax row McConnell dreams of Atlantic partnership Mail editor praises ‘remarkable‘ Brown Rob Sharp Sunday October 22, 2006 The Observer Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail and editor–in–chief of Associated Newspapers, has spoken about his friendship with the Chancellor Gordon Brown in a rare foray into the public arena.