You've got to be joking, Cameron | Brian Logan
David Cameron is wrong to say socialists are humourless. In fact, there is a fine tradition of leftwing wagsYou might think a sense of humour was the first attribute required to be leftwing and British...
View ArticleKate Middleton's poise transforms her into a future queen
Bride who betrayed few nerves at royal wedding in front of global audience appears equipped for her new lifeShe entered Westminster Abbey as plain Kate Middleton, but emerged as Her Royal Highness the...
View ArticleTales of betting's winners, losers and fraudsters
In 1981 Australian cricketers Rodney Marsh and Dennis Lillee bet against own team and backed England to win at HeadingleyAnthony Collins, a trainer based in Scotland, had paraded Gay Future, a...
View ArticleA very royal wedding, complete with a love-storming of the palace
Forget republicanism – the closest Britain got to a revolution is people pushing down barricades and rushing to the palaceWhether it was history repeating itself as history, or farce repeating itself...
View ArticleRumpled crotch syndrome and the big trousers society
Politicians at the royal wedding were united by a single joyous thought: 'I'm here and Blair isn't!'Politicians usually hate being upstaged by royals and celebs. But yesterday the few who were invited...
View ArticleFacebook accused of removing activists' pages
Protest groups claim Facebook has taken down dozens of pages over the weekend in a purge of activists' accountsFacebook has removed dozens of profiles from its site, causing an outcry from campaigners...
View ArticleRoyal wedding: Muted celebrations in Scotland
St Andrews University throws a party, but monarchists clash with republican demonstrators in EdinburghSt Andrews led the festivities in Scotland when the Fife town hosted a colourful celebration of the...
View ArticleSudoku 238 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 ArticleNasa delays space shuttle Endeavour's final voyage
Technical fault in the power unit derails launch during countdown to liftoffThe penultimate space shuttle launch was postponed on Friday because of mechanical problems, dashing the hopes of the biggest...
View ArticleRoyal wedding: How the nation celebrated
Northumberland naturist weddings, zombie spoof celebrations, a currant bun war and an power cut near Windsor Castle• The vows had been exchanged and the congregation had departed, so for one member of...
View ArticleLetters: Costume drama for all the nation
As a Guardian-reading Catholic monarchist, I must disagree with your royal wedding leader (29 April). You may wish Prince William and Catherine Middleton all the best, but your sympathies lie...
View ArticleLetters: Robin Cook would have voted yes
There is, sadly, one voice missing from the referendum campaign in favour of the alternative vote – that of the late Robin Cook (Miliband rallies Labour voters, 29 April). As a forceful and...
View ArticleGood to meet you: Volha Piotukh
A reader who was born in Belarus tells how she grew up associating the Guardian with free speech and the truthI grew up in Minsk, Belarus, during the last Soviet years. I knew the Guardian by name, but...
View ArticleThis week: Sathya Sai Baba, George Osborne, Wayne Rooney
Bidisha on the people in the media spotlight in the past seven daysGuru toshSathya Sai BabaThe revered Indian guru has died. Imagine a saffron-robed holy man who resembles a con artist pretending to be...
View ArticleThe Saturday interview: Jean Shrimpton
Jean Shrimpton was the world's first supermodel and one of the defining faces of the 60s, but gave it all up and became a recluse. She talks to Alex WadeJean Shrimpton is nonplussed. She has just...
View ArticleCorrections and clarifications
• Derek "Del Boy" Trotter, central character in the long-running television series Only Fools and Horses, conducted his business either from home, from the Nag's Head, "or in the back of his little...
View ArticleLetters: Just say no to the Duchy Originals
Regardless of how anyone feels about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, as former prime ministers, that they were not invited to the wedding is an absolute disgrace and an insult to all Labour supporters...
View ArticleLetters: Dave's no Flashman
Whether the yardstick is political repression, human rights abuses, war crimes or state violence, this article (Revealed: top university's links to Syria, 28 April) could have been written now or in...
View ArticleLetters: NHS bill report
You report that there is opposition to the National Health Service reforms "even" from the Liberal Democrats (Fears for NHS services if providers go bust, 27 April). Even? Our conference decision was...
View ArticleLetters: Resistance and great escapes
One of the most daring and courageous escapes through a tunnel, which would have scored highly in Stephen Moss's rating of great escapes (Lucky breaks, G2, 26 April), was that of about 250 Jews...
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