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Dining With Alice – review
Norfolk and Norwich festival"We're late, and it's still quite early. Let us leave no bird unstoned," says the Queen of Hearts, otherwise known to the Mad Hatter as "your angina". Her vivacious majesty...
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Queen set for first Ireland visit
The Queen's four-day visit to Ireland will be first by a British monarch since George V almost 100 years agoThe Queen has visited 129 countries in the course of the second longest reign in British...
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Lords to investigate judicial diversity
Figures show 20% of judges in England and Wales are women and less than 5% from ethnic minority backgroundsThe predominance of white men on court benches and calls for parliament to hold US-style...
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Indian elections put more women in powerful roles
Mamata Banerjee wins crushing victory over communists in West Bengal, while Jayalalithaa triumphs in Tamil NaduMamata Banerjee spent Friday morning listening to classical music while finishing an oil...
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Greek crisis forces thousands of Athenians into rural migration
Debt, unemployment and poverty is causing mass unrest and thousands to seek a cheaper lifestyle outside the capitalHigh in the hills of Arcadia, in a big stone house on the edge of this village...
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Iran to blind criminal with acid in 'eye for an eye' justice
Retribution granted to woman who had acid thrown in her face by man she refused to marryIn a literal application of the sharia law of an eye for an eye, Iran is ready for the first time to blind a man...
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Milly Dowler 'lookalike' tells trial of encounter with stranger in red car
Prosecutors claim man Rachel Cowles allegedly saw during walk home from school in Shepperton was Levi BellfieldA schoolgirl who allegedly avoided being enticed into a car by convicted double-murderer...
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Fresh fears for UK economy as Germany and France power ahead
Labour calls for austerity programme to be eased as eurozone giants report rapid growthFresh fears have been raised about the health of Britain's moribund economy after the twin giants of the eurozone...
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Cannes film festival diary
Emily Browning endures erotic indignities – Lars Von Trier's fear of flying – volleyball for the college of cardinals• The prize for the female actor who has had to endure the most indignity goes to...
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Neil Lennon: an assault, a death threat … and now the league decider
Celtic manager – who faced hostility throughout playing career – prepares for crucial matchA football manager counting down the hours to a crucial match that could win him the league title might...
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Macbeth – review
Everyman, LiverpoolWilly Russell once praised the Everyman theatre in Liverpool as "a place where you could go and see an exciting new musical or a really good Shakespeare while sitting on a bag of...
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Burberry hopes Brit brand can win over shoppers worldwide
Fashion chain trades on its Britishness to capture growing far eastern marketThe music is pounding, the champagne is flowing and a pimped-up pomeranian in a bejewelled jacket has just snaffled a...
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Do we care about 300,000 more children in poverty? | Polly Toynbee
Voters are torn between natural generosity and fear of scroungers. It's too easy for Cameron to stamp on good impulsesMuch of my childhood was spent in south London's Battersea park, and a lot of my...
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Eric Illsley claims he was a scapegoat for expenses scandal
Former Labour MP is released from jail and says his treatment was inconsistent with that of David LawsThe former Labour MP Eric Illsley, who was jailed in February for wrongly claiming £14,500 in...
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Boris Johnson versus David Cameron: it's no longer a laughing matter
Mayor warns prime minister to expect relations to get difficult in runup to London electionBoris Johnson has told David Cameron to expect a series of bust-ups over the next year as he seeks to...
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VAT-dodge firm The Hut to float despite crackdown
The Hut, which posts goods to shoppers from Guernsey to avoid VAT, is to go ahead with IPO despite plan to close VAT loopholeThe Hut Group, the firm behind controversial VAT-free online sales for...
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Delayed aircraft carrier will lack jets for three years
Navy will not get fleet of US joint strike fighters until 2023, three years after carrier due to enter serviceThe Ministry of Defence has still not decided how many planes should be assigned to the...
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EU warns Denmark over border controls
José Manuel Barroso says he doubts whether Denmark is complying with European and international lawThe European executive raised the prospect of a legal showdown with Denmark over its snap decision to...
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Tim Waterstone poised to buy back book chain with Russian partner
Speculation billionaire Alexander Mamut has stepped in with a £43m bid to clinch control of the Waterstone's outletsTim Waterstone, the founder of the book stores that take his name, is poised for a...
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View from City Hall: 'Boris has shown it's not total chaos'
Mayor of London has defied critics from across political spectrum who were convinced he would make hash of tenureBoris Johnson may deny that his long-term ambitions still lie upstream in Westminster,...
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