Letters: Social media and the Lord's Resistance Army
The organisation behind the Kony 2012 video currently going viral on the internet claims on its website that "notoriety translates to public support" (Report, 9 March). True. Uninformed and...
View ArticleThe dirty war on WikiLeaks | John Pilger
Media smears suggest Swedish complicity in a Washington-driven push to punish Julian AssangeWar by media, says current military doctrine, is as important as the battlefield. This is because the real...
View ArticleCountry diary: Grafham Water, Cambridgeshire: The mating dance of our...
Grafham Water, Cambridgeshire: Each male teal is a dandy highwayman, the green mask on his milk chocolate face neatly delineated by fine orange streaksOn the south shore of the lake, warming spring...
View ArticleLetters: Anger at Britain over failed Nigeria raid
I would like to support Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano on the occasion of the death of Franco Lamolinara (Report, 9 March). How can a government put in danger the life of another national without...
View ArticleLetters: Lights, camera, fees
While it is commendable that Rada auditions every applicant for its acting training (In a class of their own, G2, 7 March), it is not a wholly philanthropic gesture. Acting schools charge an audition...
View ArticleLetters: Fjords fry-up
The Evans-Goodwin study into the far right (Report, 9 March) is bedevilled by its methodology. The study is not of the party, but of those who self-define as supporters. This is problematic, as the EDL...
View ArticleLetters: Choice agenda for the Lib Dems
One can only marvel at the delusional nature of the Liberal Democrat president, Tim Farron, in trumpeting his party's achievements while in government (We must stop apologising, 9 March). It's true...
View ArticleDoes it matter that some of Hockney's blossoms look like evil yellow slugs? |...
I joined the crowds to adore Hockney's exhibition but I wonder about the significance of physical inaccuracies in art – and his disloyalty to the frail spirit of blossom-nessEven on a Wednesday...
View ArticleIn the US the right is eating itself. Cameron, take note | Jonathan Freedland
The Republicans are divided along almost every axis. It's something that could still happen to British ConservativesThe US presidential campaign of 2008 proved so enthralling that tomorrow, HBO will...
View ArticleFreedom of Information: a retrograde step | Editorial
In the seven years since it came into force, the act has shed light on data the authorities did not choose to revealJust how much information can be free? As parliament prepares to consider reforming...
View ArticleUnthinkable? Capping interest rates | Editorial
When an APR can reach up to a staggering 16,000% it is hard to see how this is anything other than exploitationThe website Wonga.com advertises that it can deposit £400 in your bank account in 20...
View Article3D film: have the wheels fallen off?
Hollywood was quick to jump on the 3D bandwagon, but ticket sales are falling. Film buffs Francine Stock and Danny Leigh discuss whether or not the format has a futureThe number of films being made in...
View ArticleSimon Hoggart's week: Norman St John Stevas, a friend in the Tory camp
Thatcher's colourful critic, our obsession with food and the death row prisoner who asked for an olive as his last meal✒Norman St John-Stevas, who died this week, enlivened my life. He lived in that...
View ArticleElena Omura | Fukushima's brave hearts
A year after the tsunami, Tohoku's young people need help to conquer their fear and guiltThis has not been an easy year for Japan. On 11 March 2011 – 3/11, as it's become known – one of the largest...
View ArticleWeatherwatch: Spring comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb
March "comes in like a lion, out like a lamb", according to a saying which dates back to the 17th century. Or, according to a later gloss, sometimes it's the other way around. The old saw is a cliché...
View ArticleRay Dalio eclipses George Soros as most successful fund manager
Bridgewater founder with 'radically transparent' approach to investing has the last laughAlmost 40 years ago, a young Harvard graduate called Ray Dalio was trading futures at a brokerage called...
View ArticleSudoku 2,131 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...
View ArticleHistoric Stowe pub reopens without the fleas, rats or mouldy walls
Visitors to the New Inn at Stowe gardens found much to complain about in the 18th century. Modern ones should notAt a cost of £9m the worst pub in Buckinghamshire is open again and ready to receive...
View ArticleSudoku 283 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...
View ArticleLynne Featherstone: 'I have the powers of high-level nagging'
Why does equalities minister Lynne Featherstone attract such hostile criticism? As the world celebrated International Women's Day this week, we sent our esteemed women's editor to meet her. It was,...
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