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London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony to reflect 'people's Games'
Olympics ceremony titled Isles of Wonder will involve NHS nurses and hundreds of children, says its creator Danny Boyle"Be not afeared. The isle is full of noises." As a welcome to London for athletes...
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World Economic Forum's heavy hitters fail to grasp the nettle
Davos 2012 may have been dominated by Europe, jobs and equality, but solutions were notable by their absenceThree big themes have dominated this year's Davos: Europe, jobs and inequality. While it...
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Rich and poor: deserving and undeserving | Editorial
The attempt to distinguish between different categories of the poor is almost as old as the modern British stateWhen the Archbishop of Canterbury warned against "a quiet resurgence of the seductive...
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Hornby: the end of the line | Andrew Martin
If play is the work of childhood, Hornby's struggle is grim news for the future of UK manufacturingOn reading that Hornby, the maker of Scalextric and model trains, had lost out badly in Christmas...
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Nigeria: fundamental issues | Editorial
Boko Haram's gruesome rise has prised open crevices where ethnic, religious and socioeconomic fault lines intersectA bombing campaign is reductionist by design. Complex societies with long and painful...
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How Hillary Clinton surprised me | Lionel Shriver
I was disgusted when Obama appointed her secretary of state, but Clinton has been a credit to her country and her genderDuring the protracted tooth-and-nail tussle between Barack Obama and Hillary...
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Artisan markets are lovely – but they ain't going to save the economy |...
The days when ordinary people sold their own produce and bought the produce of other ordinary people are long goneOne brief phrase in Nick Clegg's call for tax cuts, aimed at low- to middle-income...
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Metaphors, mysteries and mountains ... the battle for Scotland has begun |...
It used to be that you could live a long time in Scotland and never meet a nationalist other than the kind who wanted to beat England at footballAt midnight, when reporters and sub-editors on Glasgow...
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Twitter users threaten boycott over censorship accusation
Tweets don't always flow freely – voice of Arab spring accused of imposing gagging system in some countries"The Tweets must flow", Twitter declared a year ago, and quickly became an instrument of...
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Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire: A robin's rumbustious overture to a...
Sandy, Bedfordshire: I rose and went out into the night for more of the pre-dawn chorus. There were robins front, back and sides. It seemed as if every street light was illuminated with songFully two...
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Labour must do more to be credible on economy, says Douglas Alexander
Shadow foreign secretary warns that public has not heard enough from Labour party about how it would cut the deficitDouglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, is warning Labour it has only...
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Letters: The trouble with tobacco haters
Why doesn't Mr Chapman debate with a good and satisfied customer of the tobacco companies (Plain packs will make smoking history, 25 January)? Someone who has seen what will replace it as a smoothing,...
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Good to meet you … Cordy Swope
A New Yorker living in Germany tells of his love for the Guardian, which began in Morocco thanks to the late actor Richard HarrisI fell in love with the Guardian on a holiday long ago in Morocco, where...
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Why power skirts are the talk of Paris fashion week
The look chosen by celebrities and editors on the catwalk front rows provides the most reliable fashion forecastEye-wateringly expensive elegance is in, 50kg dresses are go, and Air Chanel was the hot...
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Doreen Lawrence: 'I don't think I've got any more to give'
Stephen Lawrence's mother talks about her private and public struggles for justice, not just for her murdered son but for all ethnic minorities over the past two decadesFor the family of Doreen...
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This impotence over Stephen Hester and the bankers looks like a suicide...
The political elite who claim to be powerless on the RBS chief's bonus can no longer assume their hierarchy will remain intactThere's a typically Wildean saying on Wall Street that there are only two...
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Letters: Time to call the bankers' bluff
As a shareholder in RBS (like the rest of us), I would like to see how the CEO's £1m bonus is justified, given the consequences of his actions on the profitability of the parent company, UK plc (RBS...
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Letters: Join our global charter to stop world hunger now
This week, with the world's business, political and economic leaders meeting in Davos, we should not be seeing tens of thousands of people dying of starvation and 13 million at risk of losing...
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Letters: A Wapping lesson
With revelations still emerging from the Leveson inquiry about the cynical behaviour of News International, readers might like to note that the exhibition on the Wapping dispute in 1986-87, when...
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Stephen Lawrence's mother says No 10 must do more on race
• Cameron 'not doing enough to tackle racial prejudice'• Murdered boy's brother stopped and searched 20 times• Trust set up to help deprived youth has money problemsDoreen Lawrence has said David...
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