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Letters: Give it some welly
I'm a museum curator who spends a lot of time mollocking around in vast stores. Given the conditions – heavy objects, 13ft-high shelves, I find it's a good thing not to be wearing pretty items of...
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Stephen Hester bonus puts David Cameron under pressure
Row erupts after prime minister claims that MPs had no choice but to agree to RBS head's bonus are challenged by LabourDavid Cameron was under fire for failing to intervene to block a bonus of nearly...
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Asil Nadir's cash deposits 'would be 300 times as big as Nelson's Column'
Polly Peck chairman's claims that money he allegedly stole was matched with cash deposits are ridiculed in courtProsecutors have ridiculed Asil Nadir's explanation that hundreds of millions of pounds,...
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Bash the poor and wave the flag – how this Tory trick works | Jonathan Freedland
In a move imported from the US right, the Conservatives have successfully induced people to vote against their own interestsThe art of the magician, so they say, is distraction. Divert the eye of the...
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Can London 2012's opening ceremony beat its predecessors?
Danny Boyle is up against faked footprint-shaped fireworks, aliens in flying saucers and spectacles with artillery fire and pigeonsAnyone concerned that Danny Boyle faces a daunting, Newton-like climb...
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Philanthropy is the enemy of justice | Robert Newman
The world's poor are not begging for charity from the rich – they're asking for justice and fairnessIt's strange that at this week's World Economic Forum the designated voice of the world's poor has...
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Twitter boycott? No, let's trust it | Mohamed El Dahshan
Censorship fears are misplaced, tweets from the Middle East will still buzz around the worldWhen Twitter announced it was giving itself the ability to censor particular tweets or users in certain...
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Plantwatch: A premature spring means early bloomers will pay the price
January is not usually the most exciting time in the plant year, but this month has been astonishing. Flowers are bursting out ridiculously early in balmy temperatures, with daffodils and primroses...
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Occupy activists attempt to take over Davos debate
Movement tries to stage its own debate on 'remodelling capitalism' at World Economic Forum venueActivists from the Occupy movement attempted to disrupt a debate in Davos attended by the Labour party...
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The conversation: Are the Olympics too commercial?
The Olympics are a purely commercial enterprise and as such have been utterly devalued. True or false? Sports writer Mihir Bose and medal-winner Fatima Whitbread discussIt's six months until the...
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Iraq suicide bomber kills dozens
Car bomb explodes near a funeral procession in Baghdad, injuring 65 peopleOfficials in Iraq say 33 people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives near a funeral...
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George Osborne wants business to make the case for scrapping top tax rate
Make the argument for how detrimental the 50% tax rate is for jobs and investment, chancellor tells British executives in DavosGeorge Osborne urged business to make the case for the scrapping of the...
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Sudoku 277 killer
Normal Sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.For a...
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Sudoku 2,095 hard
Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 09068 338 228. Calls cost 60p per minute at all times. Service...
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Why did Sergei Polunin, a star of the Royal Ballet, give it all up at 21?
Resignation of young Ukrainian billed as the next Nureyev has stumped the ballet worldIt's a story that could have been written if Noel Streatfield went over to the dark side. Sergei Polunin was a...
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Interview: architects Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour
Celebrated architect Richard Rogers and his partners discuss £140m penthouses, John Prescott's ministerial 'flair' and Prince Charles's strange ideas about architectureRichard Rogers, at 78, is not...
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From the archive, 28 January 1971: Pill for men 'on trial in a year'
Originally published in the Guardian on 28 January 1971Successful trials of a contraceptive pill for men have been carried out on rats in a London hospital medical school and, subject to approval,...
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Why I love The Good Wife | Deborah Orr
The lead character is an empty vessel, and the whole programme is an upper-middle-class fairytale, but I still love US drama The Good WifeI'm torn. Part of me is mystified that the Good Wife isn't more...
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Why we can't get enough of childbirth on TV
TV used to shy away from depicting birth. But now Call the Midwife and One Born Every Minute are attracting record ratings. So what's changed? And why now?Call the Midwife has been an extraordinary...
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Unthinkable? A federal upper house of parliament | Editorial
If Scots vote for independence, England's political will would shape that of the UK even more decisivelyAlex Salmond's plans for a Scottish independence referendum in 2014 are concentrating minds on...
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