Martin Rowson on David Cameron's alcohol initiative – cartoon
Prime minister set to support minimum pricing plan as the annual cost to the NHS of alcohol abuse rises to £2.7bnMartin Rowson
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Hostility levels have reached maximum as savage austerity measures threaten to bring Greece to its kneesThere may never have been much love lost between Germany and Greece but on Wednesday it was clear...
View ArticleGreece is being forced out of eurozone, Venizelos claims
Greek finance minister says troika is shifting terms of €130bn bailout deal as part of move to force country out of eurozoneGreece rounded bitterly on its EU paymasters when the finance minister and...
View ArticleManchester United will play strongest team in Europa League - Ferguson
• Patrice Evra left out of Ajax game after tough weekend• United take return to Europe's second tier seriouslyIt is a grand European occasion in name only. Ajax against Manchester United in the...
View ArticleWomen, policy and the prime minister: what you suggested
When we asked readers what the prime minister's new adviser on women's issues should prioritise, we were overwhelmed by the response. Here are some of your responsesRead the Guardian's roundtable...
View ArticleCan David Cameron be made to understand what women want?
A roundtable panel of prominent women discuss what the PM's adviser for female voters should say to her bossListen to the full discussion hereSee Guardian readers' responses hereIt is the first post of...
View ArticleManchester City's Roberto Mancini pleads for Mario Balotelli to behave
• Italian striker plays first game since four-match ban• Edin Dzeko and David Silva to play alongside at PortoMario Balotelli is the joker in Roberto Mancini's Manchester City pack who returns to...
View ArticleLetter: 'Furious charges, stunning irrationality and utter nonsense' – Noam...
John Gray (Delusions of grandeur, Review, 11 February) writes that "it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that, for Chomsky, America is virtually the sole obstacle to peace in the world". This and...
View ArticleCountry diary: Crook, Co Durham: Stillness of snow on a bright Sunday morning
Crook, Co Durham: Smoke hung over the stone-slate roofs of a distant Wolsingham below snow-covered fells and a blue skyIt was quiet, even for a Sunday morning. No traffic, no sound of neighbours'...
View ArticleLetters: Reaffirming our faith in secularism
Lady Warsi's polemic goes too far (Warsi delights Vatican with speech on politics and faith, 15 February). By all means fight "intolerant secularism", but to suggest that faith should influence...
View ArticleThe Liberal Democrats must abandon the doomed folly of Lords reform | Martin...
Lib Dems can be proud of much of their coalition work. But pursuing Lords reform risks wasting what time they have leftIt would require an Einstein to explain the strange elasticity of political time....
View ArticleLetters: Local autocracy
Where is the evidence for Ian Birrell's grandiose claims for elected mayors (This local shakeup will transform the political scene, 13 February)? Turnout in referendums has ranged from 10% to 38%....
View ArticleLetters: Fashion models have a stake in Equity
We were pleased to read an article applauding the unionisation of models and the birth of the Model Alliance in America (Fashion's real victims, 14 February). However, Ms Gold failed to mention in her...
View ArticleLetters: The fires of heaven
Having worked across east Africa, I have seen at first hand the effects of chronic malnutrition (Hunger crisis kills 2.6m children a year, 15 February). Sometimes when you arrive in a village...
View ArticleDunfermline worried they will not receive £80,000 due from Rangers
• Rangers owe Dunfermline gate receipts from last weekend• 'Impact will be felt throughout Scotland, UK and Europe'Dunfermline Athletic have highlighted their concern about the likelihood of not...
View ArticleWoman charged after girl, 13, fatally stabbed in Doncaster park
Victim of Tuesday afternoon attack named as Casey-Lyanne KearneyA woman has been charged with murder after a 13-year-old girl was found with serious stab wounds in a Doncaster park and later died in...
View ArticleNato approves purchase of five unmanned drones made in US
Allied Ground Surveillance drones will be capable of countering Afghan insurgents, hunting pirates or monitoring arms embargosNato is to buy five US-made unmanned drone aircraft capable of countering...
View ArticleDavid Cameron edges towards minimum price curb on binge drinking
Supermarket discounting is fuelling alcohol problem, prime minister concedes, as pressure mounts from health lobby Deep discounting of alcohol by supermarkets and convenience stores is fuelling...
View ArticlePlight of young brides in Kashmir, sold to older strangers for a pittance
Poor men have been buying teenage brides from afar to dodge dowries, while Kashmir's destitute war widows are ignoredKnees pressed against her chest, Sakina huddles near the window of a sparsely...
View ArticleEmployment and the euro crisis: bringing it all back home
This is no ordinary downturn for any European nation – whether it is part of the stricken single currency or notThey'd never have said so, of course, but in a more ordinary slump ministers would have...
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