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Amazon a 'dangerous' force, says Ottakar's founder
Amazon is damaging the high street book trade and threatens to undermine the nurturing of new talent, argues James HeneageThe founder of the Ottakar's book chain has described Amazon as a "dangerous"...
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Theresa May and Kenneth Clarke urge Tories to back security plan
Ministers tell party to support government on surveillance and claim access to sensitive data is crucial to deport terror suspectsTheresa May and Kenneth Clarke have launched a joint bid to win the...
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China is deeply flawed. Its dominance is not inevitable | Jonathan Fenby
The country's success will continue only if its elites initiate the political and economic reforms it desperately needsChina's rise is a commonplace of our times. The last major state on earth ruled by...
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Tax credit changes mean bleak Friday for thousands of poor families
Around 212,000 working couples with children will lose £4,000 a year through changes that don't even simplify the systemThousands of the poorest working families in Britain will see their household...
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Karen Matthews 'released from prison'
Mother jailed for eight years in 2009 over plot to abduct nine-year-old daughter Shannon Matthews thought to have been freedA mother jailed for eight years for what a judge called a "truly despicable"...
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France's presidential duel has been opened up by François Hollande's triple...
The Socialist presidential frontrunner now faces challenges from left, right and non-voters. He can no longer afford to sit backFor weeks the French presidential campaign looked rather dull,...
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Virgin employee quits after claims she sent celebrity flight details to...
Emails indicate Virgin Atlantic supervisor passed information about eight celebrities to Big Pictures agencyInteractive: the celebrity flight details listed in the emailA senior employee at Virgin...
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April is the cruellest month. Unless you've got an income of more than £150,000
This assault on lower income families' finances along with tax breaks for the wealthy shows where the coalition's priorities lieThis week the worried calls were coming into my constituency office. The...
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Concern over plan to withdraw housing benefit from under-25s
Government proposal would hit thousands of vulnerable young people, charities and campaign groups warnHousing charities and campaign groups have been outraged by an idea floated by Downing Street to...
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How Scotland Yard's racism allegations unfolded
The week's allegations of police racism date back to just after the 2011 riots, and encompass assault and verbal abuseThe police van, filled with eight officers, pulled up beside the black Citroën, on...
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Danish Kaneria and Mervyn Westfield to answer ECB corruption charges
• Kaneria charged for first time over spot-fixing case• Westfield due to be released from prisonDanish Kaneria has been charged for the first time over his alleged role in the spot-fixing scandal that...
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Country diary: South Uist: Songbirds herald the coming of spring
South Uist: The first new voices were those of the lapwings, their swooping two-note calls perfectly echoing the daredevil aerobatics of their tumbling display flightThe roar of the sea after a gale...
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Letters: The pain of wanting to be a mother
Yes, it's hard to be childless when you desperately want to be a mother, and Bibi Lynch's article (Mothers, stop moaning!, Family, 31 March) is one long howl of pain. I find it hard to be sympathetic...
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Letters: Security policies under a cloud
Whitehall's strange attitude to the confidentiality of our personal data is revealed not only by its recent attempt to resurrect the snoopers' web-surveillance charter (Report, 3 April), but also by...
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Letters: To the Finland Station for Boris as Ken goes off the tracks
You report (Going up: lift row raises heat in London mayoral race, 4 April) a remark that Ken Livingstone made in an LBC radio debate, namely that he and Boris Johnson are "in exactly the same...
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Letters: Opening the books on Amazon's tax
It is shocking that Amazon is paying no UK tax on the profits from its massive sales here (Report, 5 April). Many other retail companies also pay ludicrously low amounts of corporation tax. Retail...
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Letters: Open inquests
Inquest's co-director Helen Shaw writes that it is "unconscionable that a bereaved family may be prevented from understanding why their relative died and, where necessary, holding the state to account"...
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Letters: Christian actions
The swing from Labour may have been greater in Bermondsey than in Bradford West, but an important distinction needs to be drawn between the two byelections (He made us feel important, G2, 5 April). In...
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Robert Key turns it on for Kent as Yorkshire struggle with expectations
• Kent 345-5 v Yorkshire • Robert Key run out on 97Reputations are already proving hard to live up to for Yorkshire in their quest for a quick return to the top flight of the County...
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