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Terrence Malick wins the Palme d'Or
Cannes film festival honours the director for his fifth film, The Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt and Sean PennWord was the Cannes film festival had been itching to give their top honour to Terrence...
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Academy schools mean more competition for schools – but must dog eat dog?
Most secondary schools in Plymouth are now academies and are free from local authority control, but the council is determined to make a collaborative model workThe imposing brick facade of Hele's...
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Michael Gove says new admissions code will aid popular schools
Education secretary argues in a Guardian interview that the changes will enable good schools to expandMinisters want to scrap restrictions on the expansion of the most popular state schools, allowing...
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Ed Miliband warns of struggle for David Cameron's 'jilted generation'
As Labour leader prepares for 27 May wedding, he speaks about his family to illustrate fears for the future Shrinking wages and higher debts will force today's children to wait until their 40s before...
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Mumbai terror attack: US trial puts Pakistan spy agency in the dock
Star witness David Headley set to claim ISI helped Lashkar-e-Taiba extremists carry out 2008 Mumbai massacre• Whose side is Pakistan's ISI really on?Allegations that Pakistan's intelligence service was...
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BBC's Sherlock wins best drama award at Baftas
Series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman beats Downton Abbey and Misfits at TV awards ceremonyIt was appropriate that BBC1's acclaimed modern retelling of the Sherlock Holmes story...
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Coalition must resolve divisions over NHS, says King's Fund
Thinktank chief Chris Ham calls on David Cameron and Nick Clegg to end uncertainty over reformDavid Cameron and Nick Clegg have been told to end their public "arm-wrestling" over the NHS because their...
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Letters: Ed Miliband listened – what did he learn?
Ed Miliband says he "has listened" to what the electorate wants, but his latest policy statement (Why I'll never hug a husky, 21 May) is nothing more than a rehash of his acceptance speech after...
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David Cameron to relaunch troubled 'big society' project
Downing Street acknowledges that it has struggled to explain the idea to voters who appear not to have digested the messageDavid Cameron will launch his troubled "big society" for the fourth time on...
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Letters: Prewar railway structure would be better than today's costly chaos
What Philip Hammond and Sir Roy McNulty are pussyfooting around is the fact that the current structure is the root cause of the high costs of our railways (Report, 19 May). When other European rail...
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Barack Obama agrees to form joint national security body with UK
US president will use visit to London to announce new co-operation to tackle long-term challengesBarack Obama will announce during his first state visit to Britain this week that the White House is to...
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Corrections and clarifications
• An obituary for Garret FitzGerald – Ireland's taoiseach for most of the period from 1981-87 – should have said that it was the Irish republic that US president Ronald Reagan visited in the mid-1980s,...
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Weatherwatch: The Llyn Peninsula
The Llyn Peninsula, which sticks out 30 miles into the Irish Sea, is one of the gems of Wales. When the wind blows from the west, Llyn is frequently in sunshine, while it is cloudy and raining a few...
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Letters: On your bike, Flann
It's a shame that in the centenary of Flann O'Brien's birth, your list of bicycles in literature (Ten of the best, Review, 21 May) overlooks The Third Policeman. Surely nothing in modern literature can...
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Letter: A way forward for Chagossians
Your excellent report (A land neglected and decaying, but it's still our home, 20 May) focused more on the problems than the solution to the vexed issues of the Chagos Islands. The purpose of the...
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Letters: Obama's empty rhetoric on Israel
Obama's speech was disappointing (Obama tells Arab dictators: change or go, 20 May); he is prepared to support a radical approach across the region but not in Israel-Palestine. Instead we have the 1967...
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NHS shakeup: From malignant to muddled
Nick Clegg has responded decisively to his party's democratic will, and is training his sights on the heart of Andrew Lansley's plansNick Clegg is making a real difference. These are not common words...
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Cut red meat intake and don't eat ham, say cancer researchers
World Cancer Research Fund advises people to limit consumption of beef, pork and lamb and avoid processed meatCancer experts have issued a fresh warning about eating red and processed meat after "the...
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IMF directorship: A rigged race
This game of sharp elbows runs directly counter to what is best for the International Monetary Fund and the world economyThere is a thin line between due speed and indecent haste, and the discussion...
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In praise of… AFC Wimbledon
It's the story of a small group of people who, despite all discouragement, did what was right and, nine years on, have triumphedIt's a football event, but the appeal goes wider than football: it's the...
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