Occupy's starfish power regenerates protest | Giles Fraser
The Occupy movement's absence of leaders that so baffles the establishment is what makes it a catalyst for lasting change'Take me to your leader," are the first words of any colonising power. No wonder...
View ArticleLetters: Unfair advantages in school exams
Could the difference between the exam success rates of public schools compared to the state sector be a factor to consider in the inquiry proposed over the exam system (Examiners suspended over secret...
View ArticleLetters: Measuring poverty – and making it worse with welfare cuts
In your plea for public understanding about the inadequacy of unemployment benefits (Editorial, 8 December), it is wrong to call Seebohm Rowntree's "primary" poverty budget in support of a more...
View ArticleLetters: Labour abstention on pensions motion
During the recent day of action on 30 November, two million public sector workers expressed their concern about the UK government's proposed changes to public sector pensions.Last Thursday, members of...
View ArticleLetters: Proposals and praise for tax transparency
I like the idea that information collected by the government should be available to anyone (Cameron prescribes NHS reform in bid for economic upturn, 5 December). But it's not just the NHS data that...
View ArticleLetters: Community co-ops
It's not just secondhand bookshops that can be reincarnated by community initiatives like that in Clevedon (Help start a whole new chapter for a much-loved bookshop, Money, 10 December). When...
View ArticleLetters: Sheets to the wind
It's not a question of apologising and expressing regret and then that will make it all right (Tory MP sorry for stag party's Nazi toast and waiter baiting, 12 December). What should be of serious...
View ArticleThe FSA's report on RBS doesn't do enough to counter crony capitalism | Jesse...
The RBS report pulled its punches. There's much more to be done to stop business neglecting public interestAs the report by the FSA shows, the purchase of the Dutch bank ABN Amro by the Royal Bank of...
View ArticleNoW editor to blame for using Mosley story, reporter tells Leveson inquiry
Decision to print Nazi-themed party allegations without putting them to F1 boss taken by Colin Myler, says Neville ThurlbeckA senior former News of the World reporter told the Leveson inquiry into...
View ArticleBurqa wearing banned in Canada for those taking citizenship oath
Ban on face and full body veils during immigration ceremony is 'matter of deep principle', says citizenship ministerMuslim women will no longer be able to cover their faces as they take Canadian...
View ArticleMichael Jackson auction: up for sale, everything but the smiles
Fans descend on Julien's Auctions in Los Angeles as raft of memorabilia from singer's final home goes under the hammerWhat price a child's love for a parent? Contrary to what countless Hallmark cards...
View ArticleEU summit veto recriminations mount within coalition
Nick Clegg refuses to sit beside David Cameron during PM's statement to parliamentRecriminations broke out in Whitehall over Britain's isolation in Europe as it emerged that the Foreign Office felt...
View ArticleLabour's lax regulation of the City contributed to RBS collapse – watchdog
FSA says Labour leadership had encouraged it to take a 'light touch' on banks and must take share of blame for financial crisisLabour's lax regulation of the City contributed to the collapse of Royal...
View ArticleWhether we find the Higgs Boson or not, particle physics is a benefit to us...
Today we may come a step closer to solving the Higgs boson mystery – or not. Science has nothing to fear from uncertaintyOn Tuesday afternoon, a seminar will be delivered at the Cern particle physics...
View ArticleHas the Exmoor Emperor been found?
Mounted trophy in the Hartnoll Hotel near Tiverton, Devon, is believed to be from the Emperor stag who went missing last yearAdmittedly it is not as great a mystery as what happened to Lord Lucan or...
View ArticleEurophobia's no swivel-eyed Tory monopoly | John Harris
Support for the anti-EU lobby in Britain has risen from 19% to half the population in 10 years. Labour ministers feel trappedDavid Cameron's early burst of touchy-feely decontamination distracted us...
View ArticleSevere weather warnings extended to cover the whole of Britain by Thursday
Gales, snow and heavy rain forecast with transport disruption and floods expected in Scotland and northern EnglandMore storms are predicted to batter Britain this week, with severe weather warnings...
View ArticleHugh Muir's diary
They work hard, play hard and everything else one might expect. That's Newsnight• Amid the stresses of working in the BBC hothouse that is Newsnight, there are compensations. Some obvious, some not so....
View ArticleThe Eurosceptics have taken over the asylum | Simon Hoggart's sketch
David Cameron has handbagged the EU, but was less successful in explaining the whereabouts of his missing deputyIt was David Cameron's toughest test to date, explaining to the Commons why he had gone...
View ArticleStudy warns of higher ME rates among pupils
More children than previously thought miss school because of misdiagnosed chronic fatigue syndrome, according to researchFar more children than previously thought miss a lot of schooling because of...
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