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Corporate Bond's killer offer for Pinewood
Whittaker's Peel Holdings has £96.1m bid for Pinewood Shepperton approved by the James Bond film studio's board of directorsWhen billionaire property developer John Whittaker opened Manchester's...
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MasterChef winner delivers an unrivalled 'culinary explosion'
Show's judges were wowed by the Wisconsin-born Londoner's use of exotic flavours and worldwide influencesThey survived exploding souffles, wobbly croques-en-bouche and foraging for foodstuffs on the...
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Bashar al-Assad's UK gatekeeper 'only wants to build bridges'
A British Syrian Society board member says Fawaz Akhras, Asma al-Assad's father sincerely wanted to open Syria upFawaz Akhras, the London-based father- in-law of Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, is...
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Royal wedding snub for Blair and Brown criticised by ministers
Labour ministers angry after former leaders not invited to nuptials because they are not Knights of the GarterPalace courtiers have been criticised in private by ministers for "lunacy" for failing to...
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PFI projects not best value for money, says watchdog
National Audit Office urges government to find alternatives to private finance initiatives to fund major infrastructure projectsThe government's spending watchdog has issued its strongest health...
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David Petraeus: Born in the USA
Unlike his president, the general is already the closest thing to an all-American heroDavid Petraeus, the son of a Dutch sea captain who emigrated to the US after the second world war, has no need to...
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Flatlining | Editorial
UK plc has made back the income it lost – nothing more. This does not count as a recovery; it is more of a stabilisationThe following statement sounds unbelievable, yet it is true: yesterday, the GDP...
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In praise of ... Wittgenstein | Editorial
A newly discovered archive will illuminate his relationships as well as the emergence of his later thoughtSolving the problems of philosophy once is quite something, but solving them twice? Now that is...
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Letters: Guantanamo – a travesty of justice
The Guantánamo authorities say of the detained UK resident Shaker Aamer that he "refuses to participate in direct questioning, often citing imaginary or assumed mistreatment of himself" (The Guantánamo...
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Letters: Papal view
The programme for the Woodcraft Folk international camp at Debden in 1951 (available on our heritage website ) says that Lord Henderson, undersecretary for foreign affairs, gave the opening address...
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Letter: Modest aims of Holst museum
Those of us engaged with the Holst Birthplace Museum are delighted that Tony Palmer has made such a splendid film about the life and music of Gustav Holst (The inner orbit of Gustav Holst, Film &...
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Letter: Privacy and security in the cloud and at Wi-Fi hotspots
I largely agree with John Harris's analysis (Why hackers and spooks want our heads in the cloud, 26 April), but his fixation with the idea of "cloud computing" is misplaced. "Cloud computing" is just...
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Corrections and clarifications
• A report on China's plans for its future in space incorrectly stated that Russia's Mir space station "served between 1996 and 2001". In fact: Mir served for 15 years in orbit from 1986 to 2001, three...
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Letter: Our only chance to achieve fairer votes
One week today we will be asked if we want to move to a fairer voting system or stick with the status quo (Comment, 27 April). Our current rules for electing MPs to parliament were designed for a...
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Letter: Nigella's burkini
Madeleine Bunting thinks Nigella Lawson's sporting a burkini on an Australian beach is, apart from skin cancer protection, a brave political statement in favour of privacy of her body (The domestic...
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Weatherwatch: How does magnetite become magnetised?
Lodestones are composed of magnetite, a mineral form of iron oxide. Like other types of magnetite, they are hard, black and shiny, but lodestones are special because they are naturally magnetised,...
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Country Diary: Cranleigh, Surrey
The glossy green fields are bathed in a hazy spring heat. Under the canopy of the oaks there is a cool shade, the ground swathed in a low fog of bluebells, here and there punctured by spikes of yellow...
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Hugh Muir's Diary
An audience with James Murdoch. Don't get comfy• Changes at News International, where James Murdoch, discombobulated perhaps by the phone-hacking revelations, devises new ways to disconcert his...
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Ben Bernanke goes on record to warn US deficit 'not sustainable'
Obama must address debt quickly, warns Federal Reserve chief, while interest rates will stay low to protect recoveryFederal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke used his historic first conference to warn that...
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Cardenio - review
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonThey're billing this at Stratford as Shakespeare's "Lost Play" Re-Imagined. The inverted commas are well placed, since it's a matter of surmise how much of it is really by...
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