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Justice is a hard name to live up to
If New Zealand's ban on the name Justice saves one child from the annoying assumptions I suffered, perhaps it's no bad thingAs someone blessed with the name Justice, I have to say I am with the New...
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Viktor Orbán profile: a leader with a talent for dissent
The former democracy campaigner's politics may have changed but his instinct for self-preservation has remainedThe first time most Hungarians heard of Viktor Orbán was in June 1989 when, having just...
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Syrian bomb attacks cause people to rally around Bashar al-Assad's regime
Suicide bombing which killed 11 people in Damascus has shifted attention away from the protests across the countryIf you looked carefully, in the folds of a plastic bin bag, you could make out part of...
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The ANC has much to be proud of on its birthday, but little today to...
As it reaches its 100th year, South Africa's ruling party is now largely paying lip service to the values that made it uniqueThis weekend the African National Congress celebrates its centenary. The...
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Man jailed for paralysing woman in fight over spilt drink
Christopher Towers sentenced to three years for GBH after punching Claire Hilton to the floor, breaking her neck and backA scaffolder who punched a woman to the floor leaving her paralysed with a...
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Ed Miliband: 'I always knew it was going to be a fight – it's one I relish'
The Labour leader is in a fighting mood despite a supposed crisis stemming from party discontent over his leadershipFor a man supposedly gripped by his first leadership crisis and bombarded by...
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Labour – roll up your sleeves and demolish these disastrous howlers | Polly...
This government is the most incompetent in living memory, yet the opposition is too busy navel-gazing to expose the factsYet another wasted week for Labour. Fractious whingers from the Back to the...
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Ed Miliband takes on his critics: 'I knew it would be a fight'
Labour leader says he has 'taken the hard road' and ridicules the idea of David Cameron as a caring capitalistEd Miliband has confronted the growing concerns about his leadership qualities, defending...
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Labour's leading question | Editorial
Doubts about Ed Miliband are not unreasonable, but the last thing Labour needs is another leadership electionMany questions nag in many minds at the start of 2012 about Ed Miliband, and by no means...
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Letters: All a-Twitter
Doreen Lawrence is such a hero (How one family jolted a nation's conscience, 4 January). She has battled on through pain, injustice, incompetence, indifference and layers of subtle racism to achieve...
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Letters: Poor Londoners will be hit hardest by housing benefit caps
Randeep Ramesh paints a bleak picture of what the government's housing benefit caps mean for the country (Ghetto warning as poor priced out of 800,000 more homes, 2 January), but in London it's even...
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Letters: In defence of Ed and Labour
Thank you, Jackie Ashley, for (finally) getting an honest and intelligent article in recognition of the left-right divide into the paper (A return to left-right politics promises a fascinating year , 2...
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Letters: We need a new approach to economic justice
Jim Murphy's intervention (Labour told to accept spending cuts to be credible, 5 January), following similar criticisms by Lords Glasman and Mandelson, presents Ed Miliband with a stark choice: retreat...
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Stephen Lawrence verdict doesn't end the debate on police racism | Simon...
From the appalling treatment of Duwayne Brooks to the death of Mark Duggan, we can't be complacent about institutional racismWith the passing of time, it's easy to become complacent about police...
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Belleville Rendez-Vous – review
Ustinov, BathThere's a moment about two-thirds of the way into this stage adaptation of Sylvain Chomet's cult animated film when the production sparks into life. One of the cast takes on the role of...
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Charlotte's Web – review
Polka, LondonIt's 13 years since the Polka theatre first wheeled out Wilbur, the runt-of-the-litter piglet who, with the aid of the generous spider Charlotte, escapes the slaughterhouse and becomes...
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Nigerian president admits Islamists have secret backers in government
Goodluck Jonathan says Boko Haram violence is country's greatest security threat since 1967 civil warThe Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, has confirmed for the first time that the Islamist group...
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Morrisons Christmas sales disappoint as La Senza falls into administration
• Supermarket's like-for-like sales up 0.7% – analysts had expected growth of 1.3%• 1,300 jobs to go at lingerie chain but 60 stores sold to Kuwaiti group AlshayaThe supermarket group Wm Morrison on...
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The Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor – review
Unity, LiverpoolIt used to be the case that Sinbad, pronounced in a Liverpool accent, signified a hapless window cleaner from Brookside. Though the hero of Jeff Young's version (a personable...
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Mitt Romney's 'firing people' blunder offers gift to rivals on eve of primary
Republican frontrunner's statement that 'I like being able to fire people' likely to be seized on in attack adsRepublican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney offered his political rivals a gift on...
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