Clik here to view.
Meryl Streep is favourite to win Best Actress Oscar for role in The Iron Lady
Bookies have given the 62-year-old even odds to win her third Academy Award with her star turn as Margaret ThatcherMeryl Streep enters Oscars season as Margaret Thatcher entered the 1983 election: as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stephen Lawrence murder: a timeline of events
Key dates between the murder of the teenager in April 1993 and the conviction of Gary Dobson and David Norris in 201222 April Stephen Lawrence is stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack by a gang of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In defence of Britain's tabloid newpapers | Jonathan Freedland
This desire to punish the red tops' worst excesses endangers what should be a force for goodHe made an unlikely anti-racist campaigner, but there were few voices more critical in the demand for justice...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Iron Lady portrays a very different Margaret Thatcher from the one I knew...
The definitive verdict on the biopic from former Guardian political editor Michael White, who observed Thatcher up close as a young sketchwriter in the 1970sIt would be easy to imagine saying to Meryl...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Moira Young's Blood Red Road leads Costa book winners
Debut work wins children's book award and will go up against Carol Ann Duffy, Matthew Hollis, Andrew Miller and Christie Watson for £30,000 main prizeA former chorus girl has been named one of the 2011...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stephen Lawrence verdict delivers justice after 18-year wait
Doreen Lawrence says police put her through years of grief and uncertainty as Gary Dobson and David Norris found guiltyThe mother of Stephen Lawrence accused the police of putting her through 18 years...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Country diary: Lanlivery, Cornwall
Logan stone and massive boulders loom strangely in the mist around Helman Tor, where rock basins on top are brimful of water. On this exposed hill, stunted hawthorns grow sideways and the few foxglove...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Letters: PM can't afford to let Johnson lose London
Jackie Ashley (The return of left-right politics in the UK will make 2012 fascinating, 2 January) is wrong to argue that David Cameron may not want Boris Johnson to win the London election. The Tory...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Letters: An insult to the memory of Beveridge
Liam Byrne, in his argument for increasingly punitive treatment of benefit claimants (Beveridge for this century, 3 January), draws on Beveridge's rather brief discussion of "conditionality" in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Letters: Cuts in education continue from libraries to outdoor centres
You have done us all a service by exposing the damaging cuts the government is inflicting on education (Report, 27 December). Those of us who work in education have been aware of this for some time....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Letters: Brian operation
Despite the fiscal crisis, the latest eurozone annual growth figure is 1.4% (Report, 3 January). That's almost three times higher than the UK's dismal 0.5%. Perhaps it's time for David Cameron to seek...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why is Britain ramping up sanctions against Iran? | Simon Jenkins
Sabre-rattling at Washington's behest is an idiocy, and likely to do little other than escalate the steps to open conflict'The dog returns to its vomit, and the sow returns to her mire/ And the burnt...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Letters: Pauline conversion
Your coverage of the Iowa Republican primary (Report, 3 January) barely mentions Ron Paul or his policies, settling, like most of the US media, for describing him as "quirky" or "marginal". Yet he is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pain, pride and politics as Stephen Lawrence's parents give their verdict
Guilty verdict for Gary Dobson and David Norris finally allows murdered teenager's mother to begin process of grievingDoreen and Neville Lawrence had waited 18 years, as long as the length of time...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stephen Lawrence: A generation of shame | Editorial
It is impossible not to have mixed feelings at the convictions of Gary Dobson and David Norris for the murder of Stephen Lawrence 18 years agoIt is impossible not to have mixed feelings at the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spacewatch: The bright tailed Christmas comet of the year
A comet many people thought would be destroyed when it brushed by the Sun on 16 December, Comet Lovejoy has provided a memorable show for observers in the southern hemisphere. So much so, that it has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Taliban: Opening offices and options | Editorial
The success of the Afghan group's planned political office in Qatar will be measured in the number of U-turns it and the US are prepared to performThe Taliban's statement yesterday that they are...
View ArticleGary Barker on Cameron's outlook for the Economy - cartoon
David Cameron used his new year message to declare Britain can only secure 'some protection' from the debt storms of EurozoneGary Barker
View ArticleClik here to view.
In praise of … graphene | Editorial
The honorary knighthoods awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov reaffirm the old adage that the simplest ideas are the bestThe Nobel prize, and now honorary knighthoods, awarded to Andre Geim...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Couples with children 'to be hardest hit' by coalition tax and benefit changes
Institute for Fiscal Studies report says families will fare much worse than childless couples as cuts bite between now and 2015A couple with two children will be £1,250 a year worse off by 2015 as...
View Article