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NHS reforms leaving some senior GPs one day a week to see patients
Family doctors 'too busy' setting up clinical commissioning groups, while locum surgeons costing almost £1m a yearGP commissioning: the full data from False EconomySenior GPs are spending as little as...
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Letters: Freedom of information provides the scrutiny we need
It is both depressing and predictable that just a few years after our weak Freedom of Information laws came into force the drive to further cripple them is already gathering pace (Freedom of...
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Letters: Council tax and the need for review
Miles Brignall's article (Two worlds. One council tax, 10 March) got teasingly close to acknowledging that the failure of successive governments to carry out the revaluation of properties for council...
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Country diary: Farlington Marshes, Hampshire: A cormorant at peace amid seals...
Farlington Marshes, Hampshire: Black-headed gulls wheel overhead, their shadows fall on the surface of the seaA cormorant, its greasy plumage iridescent, perches on the channel marker and unfurls its...
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Letters: Afghanistan conflict: a question of legitimacy, rhetoric and regret
As news of the deaths of the six young soldiers dominate the headlines (Report, 8 March) it makes me weep with anger. 404 young men killed in Afghanistan alone. Why? To what end? Who for? The...
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Letters: Minister trades on female stereotypes
Jane Martinson's incisive interview of Lynne Featherstone (I have the powers of high-level nagging, 10 March) shows that the equalities minister has little grasp of the facts about what women need and...
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Letters: Church anguish over gay marriage
I find it sad that, of all the ills in the world, the Church of England and Catholic church choose to unite and speak out against gay marriage (As brimstone rains down from the pulpit, 12 March). Not...
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Letters: Loan-shark disgrace
Most industrialised countries have some legal controls on how much lenders can charge, but ever since the 48% limit of the old Moneylenders Act was abolished in 1974, Britain has become a wild west...
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Miliband and Balls: co-ordinated ties and a united front
Labour's big beasts spell out their message for the budget, while party appears to be model of discipline compared to the coalitionA dazzling day on London's glamorous South Bank, so a pat on the back...
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Afghan shooting will not affect 2014 security handover, says US
US soldier's killing of 16 civilians 'inexplicable', says Hillary Clinton, as White House and Pentagon stress 'isolated incident'Efforts to prevent the massacre of 16 civilians by a US soldier in...
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Labour's lost liberalism | Patrick Diamond and Michael Kenny
Now that Blue Labour has come unstuck, the party should reconnect with its orange heritageWhat do the health bill, David Cameron's veto at the European summit, disagreements over the forthcoming...
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Labour must steer clear of vapid form of leftism, warns manifesto author
Former Blair adviser Patrick Diamond says Labour is making a negligible impact on the major issues of the dayLabour will be shut out of power for a generation if it succumbs to "a vapid form of...
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Fifa corruption intrigue deepens as Brazil's Ricardo Teixeira resigns
• Brazil confederation president a key figure in Fifa for 22 years• Teixeira blames ill-health and insists: 'I've done my duty'The intrigue enveloping Fifa has deepened with the resignation of Ricardo...
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London 2012: Team GB's Istanbul efforts delight Charles van Commenee
• 'Jessica Ennis needs to work at long jump technique'• Tiffany Porter criticism galvanised Team GB, he saysCharles van Commenee has thanked those who criticised the ranks of so-called "plastic Brits"...
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RFU refuses to get swept away by wave of support for Stuart Lancaster
• Paris win does not guarantee interim coach permanent role• Ian Ritchie says RFU will still speak to other candidatesStuart Lancaster has been told by the Rugby Football Union's chief executive, Ian...
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Sotheby's to sell Gunter Sachs' £20m surrealist and pop art collection
Among 300 works are pieces by Magritte, Dali, Lichtenstein and Warhol screenprint of Sachs' second wife, Brigitte BardotNearly 300 art works belonging to one of the most fun-loving of playboys, the...
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Kenny Dalglish: 'Kit deals and a happy club are as good as points'
• Liverpool manager says there are many way to judge a season• Dalglish calls for FA action over Arsène Wenger's 'diving' claimKenny Dalglish has launched an impassioned defence of his record at...
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Man arrested on suspicion of false imprisonment after woman, 79, is freed
Elderly woman allegedly held captive inside her home in West Midlands for than 24 hours by man said to be armed with knifeAn elderly woman was being medically assessed after being allegedly held...
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David Cameron in Washington: a bridge in need of repair | Editorial
Barack Obama and the PM speak screen-to-screen with regularity. So a visit to Washington is nowadays as much about show as about substanceVideo conference calls are where the real business gets done...
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Boeing unfairly subsidised to compete with European rival Airbus
World Trade Organisation upholds bulk of ruling on US company, after already ruling Airbus received illegal aid from EuropeThe World Trade Organisation said yesterday it had upheld the bulk of a ruling...
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