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Letters: Critical factor
The first thing I noticed when I moved to Britain in 1985 was that the literary reviews were usually mere summaries and rarely critical (What a hatchet job!, Review, 4 February). I used to complain to...
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Letters: Cat gets the bird
The report from the OECD, Equity and quality in education, is a damning indictment of the education policies followed by the Blair, Brown and Cameron administrations. For Britain to be on a par with...
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Letters: Boris's attack on the Irish is out of touch
Over the years a range of individuals and organisations have worked positively in London to tackle myths, ignorance and prejudice about the Irish community. Yet in this week's New Statesman, Boris...
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Letters: Glencore and global food stocks
The dilemma exposed in your article on the World Food Programme buying food for aid distribution from commodity trader Glencore, rather than from smallholder farmers (How £50m in UN food aid for...
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Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre refuses to retract Hugh Grant accusation
Leveson inquiry sees editor reject call to withdraw claim actor lied as Max Clifford says phone hacking a 'cancer' by a minorityThe editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, refused to retract his...
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Bombardier's Derby staff get reprieve
• Plant saved from immediate closure, preserving 1,600 jobs • Rolls-Royce chief calls for change in UK attitude engineeringBritain's last train factory has been saved from imminent closure, preserving...
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Syrian troops bombard sealed-off suburb of Homs
Residents cut off in Baba Amr with food running out, as Ban Ki-moon condemns Russia and China veto at UNSyrian troops sealed off the population of a rebel stronghold in the city of Homs on Thursday and...
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Islamophobia is America's real enemy | Daisy Khan
The hysterical campaign to stigmatise US Muslims poses a far greater threat than radicalisation to America's civic unionA report released this week has at last confirmed what we Muslim Americans have...
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Ministers drop plans to make it easier not to register to vote
Proposals to change voter registration process withdrawn after criticism that voting isn't a consumer choice but civic dutyMinisters have retreated over widely criticised plans to make it easier not to...
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Six Nations 2012: Size matters and not just in the forwards | Shaun Edwards
Backs in international rugby union are unrecognisable from those of a generation agoRemember the rule of thumb for picking up sides at school? If you were big you were a forward, if you were small you...
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We must be science's masters, not at its mercy | John Harris
Recent advances in neuroscience, such as memory manipulation, create compelling ethical dilemmasThis week it was reported that soldiers could potentially, in the near future, have their minds plugged...
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Six Nations 2012: Stuart Lancaster backs England's other caretaker
• England name unchanged side to face Italy• Lancaster wary of threat from home packCaretaker coaches called Stuart are suddenly de rigueur in English team sport. Stuart Lancaster has had just one Six...
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Chief constable's warning over council tax freeze is ignored
Tony Melville says Gloucestershire may be unable to provide basic policing, yet police authority votes against rise in share of taxA police chief constable has warned that a council tax freeze means...
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When peers turned on the prime minister
Lord Forsyth, who used to be in the Tory cabinet, thinks David Cameron has cooked up a plot to discredit the LordsThe House of Lords discussed one of its favourite subjects: itself. The peers sometimes...
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Psychologists fear US manual will widen mental illness diagnosis
Mental disorders listed in publication that should not exists, warn UK expertsHundreds of thousands of people will be labelled mentally ill because of behaviour most people would consider normal, if a...
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Women at work: edging towards equality| Editorial
These are some real reasons to be cheerful. But the glass is still only just half fullThere are moments, as Jim Callaghan so famously observed before Labour was evicted from power in 1979, when the...
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Mediation by telephone aims to speed up small claims
Ministry of Justice plans to take 80,000 cases a year out of court with 'cheaper, quicker' settlements; lawyers are opposedMore neighbourhood disputes and rows over debt will be diverted into mediation...
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Hugh Muir's diary
Ed and a £6,000 hamper from the Sultan of Brunei. It's the thought that counts• Ed Miliband casually dismissed the idea that Dave's millionaire cabinet could fight a "class war" against the super-rich....
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US Republicans: divided they stand | Editorial
Republicans' failure to unite behind a credible candidate or platform is improving Barack Obama's chances of a second termIf any reminder were needed of how conflicted the US Republican party is about...
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Milan Mandaric: 'I would be lying if I said it isn't hurting me'
The Sheffield Wednesday owner says the police had an agenda to get into corruption in football but this case wasn't anything near to thatThe morning after his 13 days before in the glass-walled dock at...
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