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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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...
View ArticleSource 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...
View ArticleSudoku 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...
View ArticleUnthinkable? 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleGood 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,...
View ArticleLetters: 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...
View ArticleLetter: 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...
View ArticleLetters: 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...
View ArticleCorrections 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...
View ArticleLetter: 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...
View ArticleLetters: 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...
View ArticleJapan'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...
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleCountry 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...
View ArticleMartin Rowson on earthquake and tsunami
Japan experiences worse earthquake in the country's history, while rebels and government continue to fight in LibyaMartin Rowson
View ArticleMel 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...
View ArticleWeatherwatch: 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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