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Letters: Ken Clarke and rape law reform
It's hugely disappointing your editorial (19 May) backed Ken Clarke following the furore about his inaccurate comments about rape. You take the view that his leniency on sentencing more than makes up...
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Corrections and clarifications
• A colour article describing the first day of the Queen's state visit to Ireland referred, among other things, to the security measures in evidence, and closed with the observation that ordinary...
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Letters: Greek liabilities are a fraction of Lehman's
For once Larry Elliott is completely wrong (Could Greece be the next Lehmans? Yes – and potentially even worse, 18 May): while his analysis of the choice of lesser evils facing Greece is perceptive,...
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Letters: The holy grail of English nationalism
Madeleine Bunting's thoughtful article (Comment, 16 May) should remind us that, faced with the new order in Holyrood, the rest of us should not lose our minds. The rational pursuit of English identity...
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Letters: Two cheers for the coalition's climate change budget
I welcome the agreement on the fourth carbon budget (Editorial, 18 May) and the efforts of the energy and climate secretary to secure it. Unfortunately, cabinet infighting has delivered a flawed deal,...
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Letters: The Former UK
News about show business is never of any interest to me but the piece on page 3 (19 May) on Oprah Winfrey had me in stitches. It was the last line which did it: "'With Oprah, nothing is left to...
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In praise of... the Anglo-Irish agreement
After centuries of oppression, and two decades into the modern Troubles, the agreement changed everything and nothingA year after the IRA made an attempt on her life in Brighton, Margaret Thatcher did...
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Editorial | Middle East: Obama weaves an uncertain path
The US is not on the side of reform if to be so collides with a core strategic interestIt was billed as a big speech on the Middle East, the assumption being that if you are the president of the United...
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Editorial | Social care: Cross purposes
Strenuous efforts are being made in Whitehall – and the City – to ensure the survival of the country's biggest provider of residential careSouthern Cross, the troubled social care provider, posted...
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Farmer Jim hounded over circus animals
MPs have spent much of the week mistreating herbivorous lambs such as Nick Clegg and Ken ClarkeOn an otherwise sleepy Thursday, MPs of all shapes and sizes worked themselves into a spontaneous hissy...
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Country diary: Benbecula
It's been a morning of sunshine broken by short rain showers and accompanied by an unrelenting stiff breeze. Plans for a walk, with a bite to eat, have been abandoned and lunch becomes a sandwich and...
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Hugh Muir's diary
They fight for Queen and country. But it has to be said. Some aren't very nice• They call the website ARRSE "the army's unofficial source of military chat, current affairs, analysis". And it is...
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The Merchant of Venice - review
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-on-AvonWhat to do with this endlessly problematic play? Directors such as Peter Zadek and David Thacker set it in the stock exchange. But Rupert Goold, as is his...
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Ken Clarke's night of trial on Question Time in jail
If the justice secretary had hoped to play his get-out-of-jail card on the show, he failedOne of the most recognisable formats in British television – BBC1's Question Time – displayed two startling...
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Anger as Cameron invites Bahrain crown prince to No 10
MP criticises red carpet treatment for Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa as Bahrain crackdown continuesDavid Cameron provoked a storm of protest after he welcomed the crown prince of Bahrain to Britain in a...
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Barack Obama throws full US support behind Middle East uprisings
• President unveils shift in US policy towards Arab countries• 'Status quo not sustainable,' he warns region's autocracies• Sets out two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict• Tells Syria's...
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Andrew Lansley makes U-turn on cancer networks
Health secretary backtracks on funding arrangements for specialist services in England after parliamentary pressureAndrew Lansley has been forced to ditch a controversial plan that would have put the...
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Irish eyes are smiling: show of respect turns Queen into runaway favourite
Gerry Adams joins in praise for British monarch's gestures of reconciliation, but party colleagues disagreeThe Queen woke to find herself an unlikely star in the Irish Republic on Thursday, almost...
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LinkedIn share surge signals dotcom bubble 2.0
Business networking site's flotation shares double in a day, in clear sign of new technology crazeLinkedIn, the first major US social network to go public, saw its shares more than double as they...
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Kenneth Clarke delays announcement of sentencing reforms
• MPs to examine increased discounts for early guilty pleas• Cameron backs justice secretary after rape comments furoreThe justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, has postponed plans to announce his...
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