Gabby Logan wants to end the sexism that still festers in football | Anna Kessel
A BBC documentary reveals the discrimination and abuse preventing women in football from doing their jobsIt was just over a year ago when, for a few days at least, English football came to a juddering...
View ArticleEmail surveillance plans face Lib Dem rebellion
Senior MPs concerned at government proposals to extend powers of security services to monitor public communicationsSenior Liberal Democrat MPs are threatening to rebel over the coalition government's...
View ArticleThe fight for the NHS is not over: this is what we need to do now | Round table
Professionals and policymakers give their thoughts on the act's implications and on campaigning for the future of the serviceJohn Ashton: 'I'd like to see a royal commission on public health'Having...
View ArticleBurma: the eye of the needle | Editorial
When authoritarian rulers embrace reform they almost always do so in the hope of retaining power rather than transferring itWhen authoritarian rulers embrace reform they almost always do so in the hope...
View ArticleLetters: Labour must look to the regions
Your editorial (Economics lessons from Bradford West, 2 April) should be a wake-up call for Labour's frontbench to get its act together on regional policy. Following the coalition's destruction of the...
View ArticleCountry diary: Blackdown Hills: A Somerset wilderness with historical pedigree
Blackdown Hills: A winding path took us through woodland to steps leading to a forgotten walled garden, derelict and overgrown, but still suggestive of the estate's former characterThe river Otter...
View ArticleLetters: Leftwing, Christian and proud of it
I enjoyed the article by Oliver James (Family under the microscope: Can faith save people from a life of alcoholism or depression?, Family, 31 March) but why did he assume that Guardian readers would...
View ArticleLetters: Selective education by the back door
With the knowledge of the Department for Education and almost certainly its connivance, there is now a concerted attempt to get around the ban on the establishment of new grammar schools in place since...
View ArticleLetters: Coalhouse Door memories and funding for the arts outside London
Lee Hall's article on his new production of Close the Coalhouse Door (Still a rich seam, G2, 27 March) took me off down memory lane. In the late 1960s I was living in Peterlee, County Durham, and was a...
View ArticleLetters: Giving dog owners the turd decree
Thank you for Robert Hanks's article (Tyranny of a dog's turds, 24 March) – something close to my shoe if not my heart. I live in a beautiful area, which is a mecca for dog walkers. I love dogs, and...
View ArticleLetters: Turing shroud
"Actually, a kitchen supper is a perfectly good idea. It's an informal meal eaten in the kitchen, as opposed to three or four elaborate courses in the dining room …" (Simon Hoggart's week, 31 March)....
View ArticleThe message from Bradford: Labour needs to get angrier | Polly Toynbee
Ed Miliband should know it's not only in areas feeling the worst cuts that voters are seeing the damage around themThe political establishment needs shock treatment from time to time: a whiff of...
View ArticleWhere it all went wrong for Liverpool and Kenny Dalglish
The manager has been found wanting with British signings and his stance over the Luis Suárez affair did him no favoursThe wail of anguish was both audible and unseemly. Steven Gerrard's attempted...
View ArticleMonitoring communications: shrivelling the domain of privacy | Editorial
To mandate that an automated inspector must jot down the fact of every exchange is to shrivel the domain of privacyTrust us. It's for your own safety. Besides, it's not all that different from what we...
View ArticleBarcelona fear the brooding presence of Milan's Zlatan Ibrahimovic
The manner of the Swede's departure from Camp Nou has given this game edge and intrigueBarcelona return to home comforts but they do not expect it to be comfortable. A 0-0 draw in the first leg at San...
View ArticleFor women in work this is a perfect storm of inequality | Tanya Gold
For working women these are the worst of times. Whether it's job security, childcare or fair pay, we are going backwardsWhat kind of career trajectory do you need to caption a photograph of a topless...
View ArticleIn praise of … snow stopped play | Editorial
It may not be long before "snow stopped play" becomes a more familiar cricket hazard than in the pastCombine the quixotic decision to start the domestic first-class cricket season in late March with...
View ArticleMetropolitan police race row deepens after assault claim
Exclusive PC caught on tape allegedly assaulting teenager, hours after colleague was recorded making racial slurA policeman has been captured on tape allegedly assaulting a young black teenager just...
View ArticleEsther Addley's diary
It may be in his own lunchtime – but Gorgeous George is definitely a 'ledgend'• Delight at Diary HQ at the return to frontline politics of George Galloway, the Man They Could Not Satirise (or, it...
View ArticleRafael van der Vaart confident Tottenham can finish above Arsenal
• Spurs forward says Arsenal are under pressure• 'I'm confident we can finish third'Rafael van der Vaart has suggested it is Arsenal's turn to feel the pressure after the race for Champions League...
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