There are a couple of nice, if low-hanging, exclusives: one by Jamie Maxwell, which challenges Scottish government claims about rising wages, and another from Peter Geoghegan about Celtic and Rangers snubbing the new-ish anti-sectarian task force.
Since we know from the leave campaign that he is strong on British values, how about taking the Saudis to task for their sectarian puppeteering and rights abuses in a substantive, as opposed to rhetorical way?
While some in the military may want to separate the institution from the sectarian politics of the country, this task is difficult, especially when tensions run high.
The ever-increasing poverty, unemployment, desertification, water scarcity, rising food prices, civil wars, sectarian and ethnic conflicts make the task daunting.
Gen Musharraf's grab for power will come as a shock to many commentators who had predicted that he would forgo direct rule, and the mammoth tasks of taming the sectarian gangs that threaten law and order and steering the country back from the brink of economic collapse.
In a country deeply divided along sectarian lines, that was never an easy task.
However, it is unlikely Iraq's increasingly fragile government and its dysfunctional, corrupt and sectarian political establishment is up to the task of doing so.
Yet the huge weapons sales and enormous diplomatic mission still may not carry much weight when it comes to the hard task of reconciling Iraq's divisive sectarian politics.
After that would come the task of reconstituting Syria and mediating its sectarian conflicts.
QUETTA, Pakistan — Calligraphers linger at the gates of an ancient graveyard in this brooding city in western Pakistan, charged with a macabre and increasingly in-demand task: inscribing the tombstones of the latest victims of the sectarian death squads that openly roam these streets.
Having failed in that task, America laid at least some of the groundwork for the sectarian strife that has followed.
