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Egyptian football fans mourn and rage amid political chaos
As Al Ahly supporters in Cairo lament 74 deaths many seek revenge while others call for sense of calm and responsibilityHundreds of supporters of the Cairo football club, which lost 74 fans in...
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The Long Count – review
Barbican, LondonHalfway through this bizarre, semi-operatic production, an electric guitar is lowered on to the stage on a long rope and two men start bashing it with baseball bats. It's at this point...
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John Terry 'devastated' after being stripped of England captaincy - again
Defender loses armband for second time after trial for alleged racist insults is delayed until after Euro 2012 competitionFor England's football team, the long, albeit trophyless, years of David...
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Face to faith: In a modern, tolerant society like ours there is no place for...
In a liberal and tolerant society like ours there is no place for the divisive tribalism of the football terracesPeople talk about sport as a religion. But what would it be like to talk about sport the...
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Simon Hoggart's week: Sir Fred is shredded – now for Sir Cliff |
Mr Goodwin, Mistletoe & Wine and the compelling case for temporary knighthoods✒I very much like the idea of withdrawing knighthoods. Why not make them all temporary? Few of us expect to have the...
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BT profits on broadband growth
Company won a 56% share of new retail broadband subscribers in the last three months of 2011BT accounted for over half of the UK's new broadband subscribers in the last three months of 2011, as it...
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Chris Huhne replacement Ed Davey is 'right man', says Nick Clegg
Lib Dem leader voices approval of new energy secretary after strong record at Department for Business, Innovation and SkillsEd Davey confides on his website that it was his strong views on the...
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Baby boom takes schools to breaking point
Two-shift day and use of empty Woolworths stores among ideas to cope with surge in primary age pupilsA council in east London is drawing up plans to convert an empty Woolworths store into a classroom...
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'One-nation banking'? How original…
Ed Miliband should think of some constructive ideas to reduce inequality rather than just putting the boot into bankers againScapegoats are easy targets and politicians who spend most of their time...
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Chris Huhne vows to prove innocence over speeding charges
Chris Huhne's divorce spiralled into political crisis after claims by his former wife that she took speeding points on his behalfThe acrimonious divorce of Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce spiralled into a...
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Has our addiction to education created the wrong sort of jobseekers? | Ian Jack
In our pursuit of the luxury trades, many essential but less glamorous jobs have been overlooked or forgottenBlood tests must be among the easiest procedures in a hospital, so routine that you can just...
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Penalty points: one in 20 would take them to protect a friend
Research suggests around 300,000 drivers have accepted points on their licence when a friend was caught speedingOne in 20 drivers would be willing to take on penalty points for a friend or relative...
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Greek rescue package talks blocked by unions and employers
Greece's economy will be crippled if lenders' demands for pay cuts and tax rises are implemented, claim coalition's criticsGreek unions and employers' associations have blocked a critical element of a...
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Chris Huhne: a taste of resignation | Editorial
Should the energy secretary have quit? From the point of view of justice and precedent, it is a pity he did not fight onShould the energy secretary Chris Huhne have resigned? The answer may seem so...
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The conversation: Should we celebrate scathing book reviews?
The Hatchet Job of the Year is a new literary prize for the best scathing book review. Nominee Geoff Dyer and Anna Baddeley, who set it up, discuss the role of criticismA new literary prize has been...
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John Terry's captaincy is irrelevant – England will be hopeless whatever |...
The football captaincy is a role less significant than regimental goat. By obsessing over it we keep setting ourselves up for a fallFor possibly only the second time in its history, the England...
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Letters: A soldier's first duty
Like Helen Gardiner's father (Letters, 2 February), mine was a boy soldier. Born in 1900, he enlisted in a cavalry regiment in 1914 (presumably falsifying his age) and his parents first knew where he...
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Letters: A forum for ideas about the fashion police – and jeans
Have your magazine editors taken leave of their senses (Open door, 30 January)? Defending the decision to showcase £425 shoes and a handbag costing £1,700 in Weekend magazine, Merope Mills alleges that...
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Country diary: New Quay, Ceredigion: The silvered, shimmering vastness of...
New Quay, Ceredigion: You call this winter? With the predominantly yellow palette – hawkweed, tormentil, dandelion, ragwort, buttercups even – it glows like the sunThe headlands stretch out into the...
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Good to meet you ... Simon Woodley
A reader who relied on Saturday Guardian's Work and Money sections to help him through tough times and back into workI started reading the Guardian at about the time I turned 20. I remember buying a...
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