Nicolas Sarkozy saved France from 'catastrophe', 7,000-strong rally hears
French president launches bid for second term at meeting in Marseille with flags, music, slogans and a cheering Carla BruniNicolas Sarkozy told his first major rally in his re-election campaign on...
View ArticleInterview: Louise Court, editor of Cosmopolitan, on how sex sells
Yes, a focus on love lives still shifts plenty of copies of Cosmo, and its editor is proud of its position on Apple Newsstand – but, as it turns 40, how will it harness the new wave of feminism?The...
View ArticleOnly fear of losing face keeps this mad NHS gamble going | Jackie Ashley
The bill is a wreck, but the Tories are pushing on regardless. Miliband may be right to think it'll cost them the next electionEd Miliband is both wrong and right. He is wrong to assert that the NHS...
View ArticleJonathan Saunders seals reputation as fashion designer
Glasgow-born designer's career continues to shine with slick, polished autumn/winter collection at London fashion weekJonathan Saunders has cemented his reputation as one of London's most exciting and...
View ArticleGreek ministers work against clock to implement severe budget cuts
With debt repayment deadline less than five weeks away, Papademos battles to fulfil creditors' conditions Debt-stricken Greece is battling against the clock to implement the drastic budget cuts needed...
View ArticleGreece in final bailout talks in Brussels
Lucas Papademos flies to meet eurozone finance ministers as Germany continues to dig heels in over latest rescue packageThe Greek prime minister, Lucas Papademos, is to hold last-minute talks with...
View ArticleCountry diary: Claxton, Norfolk: Goosander ducklings find their purpose in life
Claxton, Norfolk: Instantly those 30 gram ducklings, all fresh to the world, began to sally after fish fry and were immediately lost in tiny bubbles of intense new experienceThe ice-edged easterlies...
View ArticleLetters: Brutality of housing benefit cuts
In half a century of reading the Guardian no act of state cruelty has ever hit home as hard as that which has led to "the pupils are asking teachers to find them a new home" (Report, 17 February). If...
View ArticleAs digital music sales leap, paid-for print circulations tumble
As music companies finally get to grips with the challenges of the internet, paid-for magazines and papers are strugglingJust nine years ago, Britain had a thriving music press and a music industry...
View ArticleCorrections and clarifications
Luxembourgeois winners of the Tour to France | William Lano | Hypothermia v hyperthermia | Jaywick to Colchester distance• An article about the 2010 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador being...
View ArticleDavid Cameron must make brave steps towards a federal UK | Tim Montgomerie
Giving more powers to Scotland would save the union, empower the Conservatives and haul the UK into the 21st centuryDavid Cameron did not choose to put Scotland's relationship with the rest of the UK...
View ArticleLetters: Setting the record straight on YTS
Professor Linda Clarke (Letters, 13 February) calls for "a comprehensive scheme of vocational education and training, integrating college, workshop and work-based elements, negotiated and agreed by...
View ArticleLetters: Deal with it – JB Priestley was a northerner
On Radio 4 on 14 February, Joe Grice (Letters, 18 February) promised to write to the Lancet specifying the ways I have misunderstood the 2010 ONS report on NHS productivity. Until he substantiates his...
View ArticleLetters: Free childcare places provided at a loss
Polly Toynbee states that when in power the Labour government introduced "free nurseries for three- and four-year-olds" (A strategy for growth must have childcare for all, 14 February). This was not...
View ArticlePaul McCartney and Bob Dylan? That's the sound of ageing | John Harris
Rock may be uncool, but it's not dead – as long as it accepts its new status as the music of the ageingOn 18 June this year, Paul McCartney will turn 70. "There's a little cell in my brain that's never...
View ArticleMatilda is top of the class at Whatsonstage.com awards
Musical based on Roald Dahl's novel takes four prizes at only major theatre awards voted on by publicMatilda the musical – the RSC's hugely successful adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1988 novel – has taken...
View ArticleSteve Hilton's trouble with fat cats and underdogs | Stefan Stern
The policy guru thinks that Virgin Atlantic is an 'upstart'. His confusion is Branson's PR triumphBefore boarding a flight on my favourite upstart airline Virgin Atlantic, I usually down a can of lager...
View ArticleEditorial | Iran: stumbling into war
If Obama continues on his current path, he could well have a conflict. For this reason alone, he should change courseThere are two possible outcomes of the barrage of words being launched against Iran:...
View ArticleMichael Davis obituary
Bass guitarist with the influential Detroit hard-rock band the MC5The bass guitarist Michael Davis, who has died of liver failure aged 68, joined Detroit's seminal rock band the MC5 in 1965. He stayed...
View ArticleEditorial | Secret justice: private consultations
We should be proud of the ancient presumption that the evidence on which English courtrooms proceed is openPlans to cast justice into the dark continue apace, with the end of a government consultation....
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