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Opinion · Friday, 29 October 2026
Page oneSigned columns, reader letters and the occasional correction. The editorial board meets at nine; the page closes at noon.
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Opinion is separate from the newsroom. Columnists choose their own subjects, including the ones the editors would rather skip. When we get something wrong, the correction runs in the same place.
By The editorial board · City desk
The argument page
Morning editionThe city is not short of money. It is short of a filing system.
Editorial
5 min readThree wards cannot say what they spent last year. The problem is not the budget line; it is the drawer.
By The editorial board
Column
7 min readEvery metre of concrete above the road is a metre we did not spend below it.
Guest essay
8 min readDates are promises. The calendar is where most cases actually fail.
Letters
4 min readA selection from this week's mailbag, edited for length and verified by phone.
Correction
2 min readEvery correction we ran this month, with the original error stated plainly.
Letters
Morning editionEdited for length · all names on file
Your columnist says the flyover is a mistake. I drive it every day and I am not convinced. But I am glad somebody is keeping the argument alive.
The correction was printed in the same size as the mistake. That is rarer than it should be.
Please stop running guest essays from the same three think tanks. The city is wider than that.
Write to the editor
Morning editionLetters run with the writer's name unless there is a documented reason. The editor reads everything and answers most of it.
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