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Nick Clegg tells Lib Dems: power means accepting unpopularity

More than 1,000 police officers on duty or standby at conference, ready for mass protestsNick Clegg has sought to steel his Liberal Democrat activists to face demonstrations outside their party's...

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Sign of the Times - review

Duchess, LondonTim Firth is clearly not a man to let a bad idea go to waste. Twenty years ago he wrote a one-act play, Man of Letters, about an encounter between age and youth on a Batley rooftop. This...

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Source Code delivers visceral thrills as it kickstarts SXSW festival

Film starring Jake Gyllenhaal follows in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock and offers reminders of North by Northwest, the movie that inspired the naming of this Texas festival(Cert 12A)South by...

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Sudoku 231 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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Unthinkable? Prince Andrew is a model duke | Editorial

In the context of his predecessors some may find his record disappointingly modestHe may have embarrassed past and present governments, and indeed the royal family, but Prince Andrew, Duke of York, has...

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The Saturday interview: Anne-Marie Duff

Anne-Marie Duff is one of Britain's brightest acting talents. She made her name in the Channel 4 hit series Shameless, and her career has been demanding, thrilling and 'kind of bonkers'In Sam...

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Good to meet you: Becca Thackray

A reader tells how her upbringing revolved around her mother's love affair with the GuardianThe Guardian has been a big influence on our family life. My brother wears his wedding ring on a gnarled,...

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Letters: The bac and other school measures

Last week, I presented a review of vocational education to Michael Gove, the secretary of state for education. In your paper yesterday, the shadow education secretary, Andy Burnham, is quoted as...

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Letter: Putrid US politics

It is difficult to pinpoint the source of the miasma that currently pollutes the US, blighting society, politics and application of the law. Inhaled by a young president of whom significant national...

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Letters: A quick tally of census concerns

In your article (Will it be the return of the Jedi?, G2, 10 March), I want to clarify a point on confidentiality. No personal census information has been or will be provided to EU member states or EU...

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Corrections and clarifications

• Describing some of the things that happened after Japan's arrest of a Chinese skipper whose trawler rammed a Japanese coast guard vessel in September 2010, a piece said that four Japanese executives...

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Letter: Compass points in wrong direction

We joined Compass as an organisation seeking to give a coherent voice to mainstream members of the Labour party when the party leadership was becoming dangerously divisive. For many, Robin Cook's...

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Letters: We'll meet again

Rising 90 years, and having received state retirement and teachers' pensions for nigh on 30 years, it appears that I owe society an apology (Pensions report, 11 March). While trying, with some...

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Japan's earthquake: A wave of death | Editorial

The destruction caused by Japan's earthquake has been savage, but the impact on poorer countries may be worseTsunami is a Japanese word, meaning "harbour wave". Yesterday's earthquake in northern Japan...

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This week: Jacques Chirac, Matt Baker, Alvin Wong

Lucy Mangan on the people in the media spotlight in the past seven daysTried, failedJacques ChiracThe mills of French justice grind slowly – and sometimes they come to a complete stop. The former...

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The Birmingham Six: Have we learned from our disgraceful past?

The Birmingham Six were released exactly 20 years ago, but the injustices that led to their wrongful conviction are now coming to bear on a new 'suspect community'At the trial in London last year of a...

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Country Diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire

For six months I have been lookerer to the riverside flock, a kind of commis shepherd with a watching brief over 23 charges. And what lookers they are – stocky little Southdown ewes with coats so dense...

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Martin Rowson on earthquake and tsunami

Japan experiences worse earthquake in the country's history, while rebels and government continue to fight in LibyaMartin Rowson

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Mel Gibson gets probation for domestic violence

Lethal Weapon actor sentenced to probation, fined, and given community service after striking a deal with prosecutorsThe criminal cases of Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva ended on Friday when a judge...

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Weatherwatch: Lessons from the clouds

William Cobbett was riding from Botley in Hampshire to London, on a beautiful summer's day in 1808 when he saw a cloud of dust."Soon after there appeared to rise another cloud of dust at the same...

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