The Guardian always encourages a wealth of opposing views in its comment columns. The paper's own view is reserved for the leader page, the soul of the paper. Leaders are decided each day in a meeting between the editor or his deputy and a team of leaderwriters who debate whether a line on a particular subject should be changed.
Here Georgina Henry discusses today's leaders with Martin Kettle, chief leaderwriter. The main leader is on the lessons of four years of terorism since 9/11. A new feature is a third leader entitled "In praise of". Today's is in praise of the Proms.
