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Letters: Politics and poetry to go with your pasty
Up here in the north-east we live in caves but often pop out to steal pasties – hot or cold, we're just not fussy (Pasty row hots up for David Cameron, 29 March) – before we go back to spend our...
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George Galloway dented Labour but the Tories still need a detox | Jonathan...
David Cameron may feel lucky after the Bradford West result, but the past 10 days have exposed his party as out of touchLike Tony Blair or Barack Obama, David Cameron has that most precious of...
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Letters: Galloway's win and Labour's lesson
If the various political mishaps of the Tories in the past week have demonstrated how out-of-touch they are, then George Galloway's spectacular win in Bradford West (Report, 30 March) surely shows how...
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Letters: History repeats itself in petrol panic farce
In the February 1978 petrol tanker drivers' dispute, the Labour home secretary Merlyn Rees approved a secret plan, "Operation Raglan, authorising the requisitioning of vehicles and the use of 3,000...
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Letters: Art and arms trade
Today sees the launch of a campaign calling on the National Gallery to end its support for the arms trade. The gallery regularly hosts events for the arms industry, as a result of a sponsorship deal...
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IAG's chief celebrates bmi takeover with dig at Richard Branson
£172.5m acquisition by British Airways parent company consolidates airline's leading position at Heathrow airportIAG chief executive Willie Walsh celebrated his airline's purchase of bmi on Friday by...
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Did the baby boomers have it all?
The baby boomers have been accused of stealing their children's future. Then they were hit with the 'granny tax'. Geraldine Bedell and Ed Howker join the age warsThey had free education, cheap housing...
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Centrica boss Sam Laidlaw's pay lifted to £4.3m by bonuses
Chief executive of British Gas's parent company is also awarded an £848,000 bonus that will vest in three years' timeThe boss of Centrica, the parent company of British Gas, was handed a potential...
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The Falklands: 30 years on | Editorial
At some point an acceptable settlement may be available, but the war which Argentina provoked narrowed everybody's optionsThere is no more irrational influence on human affairs than numerology. Why the...
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Turner prize gatecrasher escapes penalty for stunt
Man who tore off his trousers and clambered over press photographers towards stage is cleared of any crimeA streaker who gatecrashed the Turner prize award ceremony has been cleared of any crime.Mark...
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Bradford West: a little respect | Editorial
This was the opposition's seat to lose. It should have been looking to increase a majority, which instead disappearedGeorge Galloway is given to hyperbole, but he did not exaggerate in boasting that...
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Weatherwatch: What is behind this summer in March?
Sunscreen, sunhats, barbecues and iced drinks: can it really be March? Scotland broke its highest March temperature record three times over three days, peaking at 23.6C in Aboyne in Aberdeenshire on...
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Unthinkable? Rewriting the rules of the road | Editorial
Design a new highway code, bin the rules that most infuriate you. Invent ones that would smooth journeys, save fuel and livesHere's a game to pass the time while you inch forward in the petrol queue...
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Listening is fantastically powerful and soothing – we need more of it |...
We called ourselves a co-operative. We all had equal say, pay and power. But no idea how to foster co-operative workingI love the idea of workers' co-operatives, I really love it. But one tiny, nagging...
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Anti-abortion prayer vigil faces noisy pro-choice protesters
40 Days for Life activists outside British Pregnancy Advisory Service clinic in London challenged by demonstratorsIt made a strange chorus: on the one side, a small crowd of Catholics, intoning the...
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Sudoku 2,149 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 286 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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From the archive, 31 March 1932: New arrivals at London zoo
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 31 March 1932A newly born baby zebra, neglected by its mother, is being brought up on the bottle and seems likely to flourish. At first it was very...
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'My food is really emotional' | Heston Blumenthal
His cooking is a famously multi-sensory experience. But Heston Blumenthal says he is no longer a temperature-obsessed workaholic, and hopes his Olympic-themed airline meals prove itWith his oversized...
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Why look at Tulisa Contostavlos when she asks you not to? | Deborah Orr
People, presumably, would not dream of climbing a drainpipe to gawp at the bedroom secrets of their neighboursI would like to think that the Soho shops flogging DVDs of "Tulisa's sex tape" for £3.90...
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