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Our pick of the week: The story, the stat, the quote, the tweet
Oliver Laughland on the people and stories in the media spotlight in the last seven daysThe storyCarla's divine giftShe asked and God delivered. Following an official visit to India last year in which...
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The immense melancholy of the skies
For five days, the rain had been falling on Algiers. "From the heights of an apparently inexhaustible sky, unending sheets of rain, so thick they were viscous, swooped down on the gulf. Soft and grey...
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Philip Roth protest had nothing to do with feminism, says Virago founder
Carmen Callil defends decision to quit Booker panel and says dislike of author based on literary shortcomingsThe founder of the feminist press Virago who withdrew from the judging panel of the Man...
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Corrections and clarifications
• The transport secretary was reported as telling the Guardian that in his view the £5.2bn-a-year state subsidy for rail users is unsustainable, and predicting reluctance among taxpayers to...
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Letters: Pause for thought after care ruling
The Birmingham judgment has far-reaching implications, both for legislators and for local councils (Council's plan to cut care for disabled ruled unlawful, 20 May). In recent years, governments have...
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Letters: Footnotes to the Queen's Irish visit
During her visit to Dublin the Queen rightly paid tribute to the Irish who fought for independence against British rule (Irish eyes are smiling: Queen's show of respect turns her into runaway...
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Letters: Torture fears over Bahrain crackdown
The scale and severity of the suppression of protesters in Bahrain warrants a much tougher response from the UK government (Anger at Cameron's invitation for Bahraini prince to No 10, 20 May). Mere...
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Letters: Brooks' diagnosis
Ignoring all the evidence, David Brooks blindly parrots the argument that the US invaded Iraq in 2003 "to install democracy" (What's the big idea?, G2, 19 May). An October 2003 Gallup poll found that...
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Letters: Roth, male writers and female readers
Your report (19 May) that Carmen Callil has dissociated herself from the choice of Philip Roth to win the International Man Booker prize highlights a point that I and many other women readers have been...
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Letters: Tea Party kettled
Polly Toynbee (Comment, 17 May) presents a false choice between benign centralism and fractious localism. Many countries manage to operate governmental systems with significant local autonomy and...
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Thanks for coming to Ireland – but we still need a bailout | Colm Toibin
When Colm Toíbín was a boy, his father took him to see John F Kennedy during his visit to Ireland. This week, he met the Queen in Dublin, and next he will watch President Obama fly in. Visiting...
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Letters: I did not defend the Aliyev regime
Ambassador Gurbanov's assertion (Letters, 20 May) that I have "in the past stoutly defended the wisdom of President Ilham Aliyev's 'diligent balance' in his leadership of our country – notably in a...
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Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire
Close encounters on the garden pond tend to be of the "eat or be eaten" kind. The water measurer seems to understand that. This centimetre-long aquatic stick insect waits for a clear run before...
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Terror suspect given London ban under control order terms
British-Nigerian man's removal to undisclosed Midlands address 'necessary to protect public from risk of attack'A British-Nigerian terror suspect who MI5 say was a leading figure in a "close group of...
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Alastair Campbell rejects Iraq dossier claims
Blair's communications chief writes to Chilcot inquiry after intelligence official claimed dossier was designed 'to make the case for war'Alastair Campbell has hit back at a former defence intelligence...
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Netanyahu and Obama long way apart over Middle East peace plans
US and Israeli leaders at odds over 1967 reference, leaving Obama to discuss issue with Cameron in LondonBarack Obama failed to resolve the rift with Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu over the...
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Strauss-Kahn barred from moving into exclusive New York apartment
Former IMF chief released from jail but unable to move into $14,000-a-month flat as building's residents objectedDominique Strauss-Kahn was granted bail on Friday but the former International Monetary...
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RIP a true gent and an earl of wisdom
Garret FitzGerald and the Earl of Onslow were a rare breed – politicians who were surprisingly nice✒ Two politicians who were surprisingly nice died this week. Former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald was...
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It's not the arithmetic of genocide that's important. It's that we pay...
Every day, foreign conflicts with complicated origins reach us dressed with appealing simplicityIgnorance is an easy thing to live with and, perhaps for that reason, common.Reading a disturbing book...
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Unreported World – review
An investigation teetering on the brink of despair focused on the Mexican woman with the hardest job in journalismIn Unreported World (C4), Evan Williams talked to journalists who risk their lives...
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