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Letter: A real horse scandal
The brouhaha of Horsegate misses the real story (Crisis mounts: now PM caught up in Horsegate, 2 March). Rebekah Brooks was performing a charitable service by taking a retired police horse on loan. She...
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Letters: Republican particle
If you earn less than £35,000 a year you are superfluous to requirements (Report, 29 February). If you are poor and in receipt of state benefits, you had better go live north of Hull. If you are rich...
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The conversation: Argentinian and British veterans on their Falklands war...
Argentinian navy veteran Roberto Herrscher and former Royal Artillery soldier Tony McNally discuss the legacy of one of the UK's most controversial conflicts 30 years onNext month is the 30th...
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Russia's rusty state machine | David Hearst
Vladimir Putin will be elected president, but the system he devised to run the country no longer worksVladimir Putin will win on Sunday. Of that there can be little doubt, but there the certainty...
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Animalwatch: Volunteer wardens are out to rescue toads from traffic
Toads are on the move. The recent balmy weather was the starting pistol for one of the greatest wildlife phenomena in Britain, when thousands of toads come out of hibernation and waddle their way to...
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We will carry the torch of Bhopal to London's Olympic Games | Indra Sinha
Why is Dow Chemical being allowed to sponsor this year's Olympics, when there are so many unanswered questions?This week has been surreal. On Monday, at 7.30am, the phone rang. It was Farah and Tim,...
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From Google downwards, our digital masters must be watched | Jonathan Freedland
The wielders of power who scrutinise and log our actions should themselves be held in check, in the same way as our politiciansAs far as I know there is no secretive government agency that keeps a trio...
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Employees to get extra time off in the event of illness while on holiday
European law to come into effect in October, sparking fears that small businesses will be unable to cope with the extra costEmployees will have a legal right to extra time off work if they become ill...
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Unthinkable? The unwritable
Harsher critics have accused Rachel Cusk of a confessional narcissism that unfairly exposes the private agony of her familyAll great art, argues Nietzsche, is a combination of Dionysus and Apollo....
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Paul Conroy warns of Syria massacre
Homs could compare to the onslaughts of Bosnia and Rwanda, warns photographer who was smuggled out of stricken cityPaul Conroy, the British photographer wounded in the rocket attack that killed war...
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Iran oil embargo questioned
European Union sanctions called into question following increase in shipments arriving in the MediterraneanThe effectiveness of an EU embargo on Iranian oil imports has been cast into doubt by growing...
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Michael Gove aides accused of deleting government correspondence
Information commissioner rules that Gove used private account to discuss government business with special advisersThe education secretary, Michael Gove, is facing accusations that aides in his office...
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Sudoku 2,125 hard
Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 09068 338 228. Calls cost 60p per minute at all times. Service...
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Sudoku 282 killer
Normal sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.For a...
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Saturday interview: comedian Susan Calman
Susan Calman has not had it easy. Growing up gay in Glasgow was like being 'a vegan abattoir worker'. At 30 she gave up the law to become a comedian, and it's starting to pay offThe lucky thing is,...
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Suzanne Moore at the House of Lords
Suzanne Moore has always believed the House of Lords, with its 'feckless scroungers and inbred toffs', should be abolished. This week she went to spend a day there – and left a convertWhat to wear for...
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From the archive, 3 March 1871: Editorial: the capitulation of Paris
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 3 March 1871Victor Hugo, in the "Misérables," describes the 18th of June, 1815, as "the most mournful day in the history of France;" but he himself...
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Englebert Humperdinck for Eurovision? It's a stroke of genius | Deborah Orr
Great news, firstly, that Englebert is still alive. Who knew? Even better that he is going to represent Britain at EurovisionThis week's really excellent news is that Engelbert Humperdinck is still...
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Labour could offer Scotland new powers
Devolution would lead to greater freedom for voters on taxation and social policy in alternative to SNP proposalsScottish voters could be offered even greater freedoms on taxation and social policy...
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Being bad at maths is not something to be proud of | Deborah Orr
It has taken a long time for Britain's shortcomings in literacy to be acknowledged – now we must do the same for numeracyA few weeks ago, Sue Chapman wrote a moving piece for the Guardian's Weekend...
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