The myth of 'race' was invented by racism, and racism keeps it growing |...
Racism is incredibly successful, despite having no basis at all in fact. There is only one race – the human raceRacism, quite clearly, has not been "shown the red card". Racism, quite clearly, has not...
View ArticleGood to meet you … Amy Pirt
A blogging bookseller and single mum from Kent says what she loves about the Guardian: particularly G2 and Saturday's paperI started reading the Guardian at university when I was about 19, nine years...
View ArticleLetters: Abu Qatada – a test of our civil liberties
The Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, Thomas Hammarberg, has stated Abu Qatada could have been tried in Britain, if there was sufficient evidence to do so (Report, 17 February). In the...
View ArticleLetters: Why Turner is still contemporary
Charles Saatchi's sensible assertion that museums are there to ensure that "the key works that represent developments in art are available to be examined by future visitors" is somewhat undermined by...
View ArticleLetters: Military camp
Professor Nick Black's view on the "myth" of declining healthcare productivity (Study contradicts Tories on NHS productivity, 13 February) appears to be based on a number of misunderstandings. He notes...
View ArticleChild asylum seeker: 'I begged not to be put in prison. They handcuffed me'
Two of the 40 young asylum seekers wrongly detained as adults recall their ordealNgisti was briefly imprisoned in her home country in east Africa before she fled to the UK at the age of 16 and claimed...
View ArticleLetters: And so to bed – warmed by ferrets, cats and wine bottles
In the 1940s, when frost formed on the insides of bedroom windows I never, as a boy, had to get into a cold bed (Letters, passim). My father's homemade bedwarmers, made out of sheets of aluminium,...
View ArticleLabour's Maria Eagle backs two-thirds of coalition's transport spending cuts
Shadow transport secretary says she would remove £6bn from budget, the largest cuts put forward by any shadow ministerMaria Eagle, one of Ed Miliband's earliest supporters in the shadow cabinet, has...
View ArticleFilled with pills or potions, the bulky pharmacist's bag will come for us all
For many men, the first regular prescription can be a shocking sign of increasing vulnerabilityMen tend to come to pills quite late in life. For our first 50 or 60 years, what has a chemist's shop...
View Article£2m paid out over child asylum seekers illegally detained as adults
Legal case involved 40 youngsters who were locked up in adult units under Home Office policy deemed to be unlawfulThe Home Office has paid compensation of more than £1m, plus £1m costs, in a case...
View ArticleSpacewatch: ISS joins brightest planets in evening sky
The reappearance of the International Space Station in Britain's evening sky gives us opportunities to compare it with the brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, and the brightest star Sirius. Our...
View ArticleCameron calls summit of health professionals to push NHS bill
PM to lead No 10 talks though some groups, including the Royal College of General Practitioners, appear not to have been invitedDavid Cameron begins the fight to save his NHS bill on Monday by...
View ArticleItalian police seize $6tn of fake US Treasury bonds
Swiss authorities find bonds in safe deposit boxes in Zurich in 'largest ever' seizure of fake securitiesItalian police have seized $6tn of fake US Treasury bonds, an amount equal to more than a third...
View ArticleTheresa May to visit Jordan for Abu Qatada deportation talks
Home secretary will travel to Jordan, after Home Office minister James Brokenshire flew out this weekTheresa May is to travel to Jordan to continue talks on the possible deportation of Abu Qatada, but...
View ArticleLibya: job done? | Editorial
The country is run by militias, torture and human rights abuses are widespread but neither Britain nor France seem botheredDavid Cameron gave Nicolas Sarkozy a shell casing to mark the first...
View ArticleUnthinkable? A British history theme park | Editorial
An opportunity for a roller-coaster ride through the best of times, and the worstThe French want to build a Napoleon theme park. You need only think of the Millau Viaduct to know the French don't lack...
View ArticleStudent loans: entry fees | Editorial
The likely appointment of Professor Les Ebdon at Offa is a step in the right direction – but does not solve the underlying problemUniversity entrance is in a mess. It is a mess that is damaging to...
View ArticleFacebook hacker jailed for eight months
Glenn Mangham's lawyer claims his client was 'ethical hacker' who wanted to show how Facebook could improve its securityA student who hacked into Facebook in "the most extensive and grave" case of...
View ArticleSudoku 2,113 hard
Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 09068 338 228. Calls cost 60p per minute at all times. Service...
View ArticleSudoku 280 killer
Normal sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.For a...
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