Roberto Mancini erred with imaginary card but let's not get too pious | Kevin...
Etiquette has its place but the general notion that fair play should prevail is unachievable when so much is at stakeFootball still has a hankering for sportsmanship. There is distaste when someone...
View ArticleStephen Lawrence school closure threat alarms parents
Parents raise concerns over racism and children's safety at other schools if Blackheath Bluecoat in south-east London is shutThe school in south-east London attended by Stephen Lawrence until his death...
View ArticleWest Lothian question inquiry 'risks creating second-class MPs'
Labour criticises commission set up to investigate whether English MPs should get greater say in England-only legislationMinisters have been accused of deliberately fudging a politically explosive...
View ArticleTwo symbols of Irish economic decline | Henry McDonald
As activists took over the Bank of Ireland's disused Belfast headquarters, a Dublin court was sealing the fate of Ireland's former richest manBordering on the clashing architectural styles of gothic...
View ArticleMichael Gove orders inspection of school in academy row
Ofsted instructed to carry out inspection of Downhills primary, where the governors are resisting academy statusMichael Gove has instructed Ofsted to carry out an inspection of a primary school where...
View ArticleSocial work's Baby Peter blame game confronted in new play
Social worker Chris Lee's new play, Shallow Slumber, explores how the profession was left reeling in the wake of the Baby P tragedyWhen the shocking case of Baby P hit the headlines during 2008, it...
View ArticleYoung British Artists 2.0 try to make way in wake of Hirst and co
The YBA days of pickled sharks and stardom are long gone, but as a new art guide shows, there is top talent for a soberer timeAs Damien Hirst dusts off his £50m diamond skull in preparation for his...
View ArticleMatt Prior refuses to question Saeed Ajmal's action after dismal day
• England dismissed for 192 in first Test against Pakistan• Prior blames poor batting, not Ajmal's bowling styleEngland blamed poor batting rather than raising questions over Saeed Ajmal's bowling...
View ArticleMaldives courts boycott sessions to protest chief justice's arrest
Judge arrested on Monday after he freed an opposition leader detained for allegedly defaming the governmentThe Maldives military has arrested the chief justice of the country's criminal court after he...
View ArticleRon Paul: maverick who could decide the future of the Republican party
The 76-year-old libertarian has secured a seat at the high table of US presidential hopefuls, but his rise is causing reverberationsThe crowd strained forward as the lights dimmed, a sea of smartphones...
View ArticleIan Semple obituary
My father, Ian Semple, who has died aged 82, was an outstanding member of the Bahá'í faith – a world religion that promotes the unity of humankind – and served for 42 years on its international...
View ArticleFlying the flag for ladyboys: Thai airline takes on transgender flight...
Boss of PC Air hires transgender cabin crew and says he wants Thailand to give more rights to 'members of the third sex'Her eyelashes, and her stockinged legs, are long enough to warrant a double-take...
View ArticleItalian cruise ship divers find five bodies
Confirmed death toll of Costa Concordia disaster reaches 11 after bodies of four men and one woman in lifejackets foundDivers have found five more bodies in the stern of the wrecked Costa Concordia,...
View ArticleHow an electric car scheme plans to drive down social divisions
A public mobility project with a social purpose – Britain should sign up now, says Randeep RameshWhen José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, launches the Hiriko electronic car next...
View ArticleConstruction firm accepts engineer was blacklisted over union membership
Carillion subsidiaries covertly supplied information about Dave Smith to database of 'troublesome' workersA major multinational company has accepted that an engineer was covertly blacklisted because he...
View ArticleDavid Hockney proves a man for all seasons as landscapes go on show
Royal Academy exhibition featuring 150 works by artist expected to attract huge numbersThe biggest ever UK exhibition of landscape paintings by a living British artist opens this weekend, with the...
View ArticleThe Seasons – review
Barbican, LondonFirst performed in 1801, The Seasons was Haydn's last oratorio and has a reputation for being something of a problem piece. Its depiction of a divinely appointed, rationally ordered...
View ArticleCan refugee charities ride out the cuts storm?
Organisations supporting people fleeing conflict or persecution have been hit hard as government and grant funding dries upAyan Hassan can't stop smiling. The Somali-born mother of three is talking...
View ArticleFree-school licence advertised on Swedish 'eBay'
Row erupts after permit to run Malmö primary school advertised on Blocket auction site, with starting price of £47,000A permit to run one of Sweden's free schools – which inspired the flagship Tory...
View ArticleTrade union irritation with Ed Miliband boils into open rebellion
Rift fuelled by anger at Labour leader's refusal to back public pension strikes and the sense he is abandoning those who elevated himBrewing discontent with Ed Miliband among trade union leaders was...
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