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Unthinkable? England team spirit | Editorial
Perhaps it is time for Fabio Capello to hand over the reins to someone better versed in English ways - but who?It is a challenge which faces all modern-thinking chief executives today: how to mould a...
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Ebook sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction
Publishers face secrecy over sales and an absence of industry-wide data to help them plot strategyKindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners....
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How Britain's migrants sewed the fabric of the nation | Robert Winder
History shows it's hard to pick out which migrants will be good for the UK. It is risky for the state to tryImmigration minister Damian Green last week said Britain did not need any more unskilled...
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Olympus shareholders given chance to quiz board members
Japanese camera maker to aims to hold managers to account over fraud claims at emergency meeting on 20 AprilOlympus, the Japanese camera maker suing 19 current and former executives over accounting...
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Transport secretary to vote against Network Rail £20m bonus
Justine Greening to attend firm's AGM to vote against executive payout – though Labour says she is failing to use full powersThe transport secretary, Justine Greening, is planning to vote against a...
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Interview: Ben Cooper, controller of Radio 1, on getting younger
Its latest boss is tasked with winning a new audience for Radio 1 – and presumably edging out its older presenters. His real ambition is to make his station the Jamie Oliver of the airwavesBen Cooper...
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Nietzsche's passionate atheism was the making of me | Giles Fraser
Nietzsche's pious lack of faith led to my own conversion to ChristianityThe Big Ideas series has for several months now explored the meaning of a number of familiar intellectual phrases, among them...
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Media Monkey's diary: Chris Moyles, BBC drama and Tulisa
✒The prospect of BBC Radio 1 breakfast DJ Chris Moyles ever overtaking his Radio 2 rival Chris Evans appears to have long since disappeared over the horizon. Moyles thought he might have the nation's...
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NHS reforms: the bill that will cost us dear
It is hard to think of a starker failure in domestic government since the poll taxNo one, but no one, thinks that the health and social care bill returning to parliament this week is any good. Nurses...
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Country diary: Norwich, Norfolk: An otter steals the show
Norwich, Norfolk: At the opening of the nature trail, there she was, unscripted and unexpected, porpoising freely like a swallow through the spring airThe sky was antifreeze blue and there was white...
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Letters: Alternatives to Heathrow expansion
Your article on the increased vigour of business lobbying in favour of Heathrow expansion (Report, 2 February) neglected to ask a simple question: does the UK need more airport capacity? We'd suggest...
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Letters: Law must prioritise children's rights
Much has been written in the media recently about fathers being denied the right to have a full and meaningful relationship with their children because of inadequacies in the legal framework (Divorced...
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Letters: Intensely relaxed about Olympic travel
Peter Hendy, London transport commissioner, is evidently unconcerned about the Olympics (Report, 31 January), and dismisses the travel fears of Londoners as "dinner party … grumbles". Wondering what...
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Letters: Lessons from Lucas Aerospace
I well remember the Lucas Aerospace plan (A utopia we nearly had, 1 February), but I also have an even older memory. In 1945 I was an apprentice in the aircraft industry, producing torpedo bombers for...
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Civil servants of Sir Humphrey vintage were amusing: but Whitehall's changed...
Sniping between Whitehall and MPs prompted by revelations over spending goes to the heart of governmentWhitehall has become a frontline. The elegant boulevard, stretching from Trafalgar Square down to...
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Bonuses: a culture in need of curbing | Editorial
If politicians are now waking up to voters' increasing intolerance of excessive remuneration, then it's about timeTo dismiss it as rough justice is to miss the point: public anger about the vast sums...
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Putin's veto sets Russia apart | David Hearst
Ignore Russia's public relations machine: Putin has misread the turmoil in Syria as much as he has the protests at homeIf anyone thinks the international opprobrium heaped on Russia and China for...
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Weatherwatch: Wind turbines may be opposed but windmills are attractions
There are still many windmills in the British countryside, and they are seen as attractions, while wind turbines are frequently vehemently opposed. In the 18th and 19th century when there were...
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The weather in January
It was the warmest January for four years, and a rather dry and sunny month, except in Northern Ireland and western and northern Scotland. Westerly winds carried over from December into early January,...
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The art of recession-dodging | Sarah Thornton
The super-rich are relying on bronze spiders, balloon flowers and abstract paintings to escape volatile timesIn this troubled economy, Christie's and Sotheby's are doing a booming business. Christie's...
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