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Letters: Meagre support for deaf schoolchildren
In your article (Fifth of authorities cut help for deaf schoolchildren, 10 May) you state that councils are scrapping posts for specialist teachers or cutting budgets for radio aids, etc. Deaf children...
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Letters: Faith, funerals and a sense of togetherness
I was deeply touched by Jon Canter's article (My sister wanted a godless funeral. But still invited God, 10 May). As an Anglican priest I have frequently taken funerals of people whose relation to...
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Letters: Majestic whine
With reference to the news that Britain has its first female self-made billionaire, Dame Mary Perkins of Specsavers (Report, 8 May), whatever else she may be, she is not a "self-made" billionaire, any...
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Letters: Mind your English language
While most people accept that language will change with use and time, Sarah Churchwell appears to justify the increasing Americanisation of British English (A neologism thang, innit, 10 May). Noah...
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Letter: Dial S for Smethwick
Mention of the Smethwick Telephone newspaper (Letters, 9 May) brought back memories of my first job as a 15-year-old cub reporter, 68 years ago. There were only three phones in the building – one each...
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Country diary: Westgate, Weardale
You don't often see a heat haze over moorlands here at this time of year, but recently the air above the heather has been wobbling in the heat. On a windless afternoon we sank down on to the turf of a...
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Weatherwatch: Dry April, wet summer?
After one of the warmest, sunniest and driest Aprils in living memory, what can we expect from the month of May? A shortage of floral displays, perhaps: one proverb says April showers bring forth May...
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Hugh Muir's Diary
Some things are just worth waiting for. The 'cleverest man in Britain' is one of them• Too many sour grapes threaten to take the considerable shine off the elevation of Jonathan Sumption, aka "the...
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Inflation will hit 5% as growth slows, predicts Mervyn King
Bank expecting domestic gas bills to rise by 15% and electricity bills 10% this year in latest blow to household financesMervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, warned yesterday that the...
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Heritage or horror? Row over Broadgate demolition plan
Owners seek to rebuild City landmark that launched loadsamoney culture of 1980sIt was the City of London office complex that came to embody the brash, flash "loadsamoney" culture of the 1980s economic...
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Spain: Lorca shaken by earthquakes
More than 300 troops and extra police with search and rescue teams were being drafted into the city, where 10 diedAn earthquake struck the south-eastern Spanish city of Lorca on Wednesday, killing at...
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Shadow culture secretary withdraws Labour 'spendthrift' claim
Ivan Lewis removes remarks before speech in Westminster A member of the shadow cabinet was forced last night to amend a speech in which he planned to warn that some voters believe the party is...
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Yemeni forces kill 18 and wound hundreds as unrest escalates
Worst violence in months sees demonstrators and defected army faction clash with republican guardYemeni forces have opened fire on demonstrators in three major cities, killing at least 18 and wounding...
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Scotland: The magical Mr Salmond | Editorial
Beginning his second term as first minister the SNP leader is a political wizard, weaving the spell of national destinyThe end of Britain? Don't believe it, or at least don't believe it quite yet....
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Japan: Seeking higher ground | Editorial
Tepco may apologise profusely, but the nuclear industry has lost the stranglehold it once had over the energy debateIt took 10 years to rebuild Kobe after the earthquake in 1995, but that timeframe is...
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In praise of… LTC Rolt | Editorial
A journey marks the 60th anniversary of Dolgoch pulling the first passenger train on the newly reopened Talyllyn railway in 1951On Saturday, a bright red tank engine called Dolgoch will pull a...
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Osama bin Laden sought 'new 9/11' to force US out of Middle East
Hoard of writings on computers, flash drives and in diary reveal morbid emphasis on another atrocityOsama bin Laden went to the bizarre length of trying to calculate how many more American deaths it...
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The City Madam – review
Stratford-upon-AvonIt is always good to see The Swan, conceived as a venue for non-Shakespearean classics, reverting to its original purpose. But, much as I enjoyed this rare revival of Philip...
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Google targets Microsoft with launch of Chromebook laptop
Search giant to use its own operating system on new laptops in audacious challenge to Microsoft's £5bn-a-quarter softwareGoogle has launched an audacious attack on Microsoft, announcing laptop...
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US to spend $30m fighting internet censorship
America funding technology to break web censorship in repressive regimes, such as China and IranThe United States is playing a game of "cat and mouse" on the web, funding new technology aimed at...
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