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NHS failing in basic care of some elderly patients, warns watchdog
Care Quality Commission says some NHS trusts do not provide dignity and nutrition for some senior citizen patientsThe NHS regulator today criticises the service for failing some elderly patients by...
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Jared Lee Loughner: Tucson shooting spree suspect incompetent for trial
The man accused of gunning down Gabrielle Giffords and killing six is mentally incompetent to stand trial, a judge has ruledThe man accused of gunning down US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and...
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Letters: Super eruption
Turning the wheel slightly and easing off from the accelerator are not signs that Andrew Lansley will steer the NHS away from the cliff edge of privatisation (Report, 23 May). His plan must be stopped...
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Letter: Energy rethink
The competition to find new pylon designs that has been launched by the National Grid and the energy secretary, Chris Huhne, is very welcome, but we must not let it detract from the real issues facing...
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Corrections and clarifications
• A review of Macbeth at the Everyman theatre in Liverpool included the sentence: "The Everyman has been a remarkable crucible of new talent since Terry Hands first established the company in 1964." To...
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Letters: The ramifications of Scottish independence
My quoted comment on the SNP's economic prospectus – "It's voodoo economics" – did not imply that Scottish independence is not a viable option (Can Scotland pay its way?, G2, 20 May). As I elaborate in...
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Letter: Israel and the real failing of resolution 242
Andrea Teti (Letters, 23 May) makes light of the absence of the definite article in the English version of UN resolution 242 of 1967 that called for the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces "from...
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Letter: Women's pensions
You were right to highlight that one of the ways government policies are impacting women unfairly is in the increase of the state pension age (How the coalition's blind spot on equality is letting...
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Letter: G8 must act on health workers
This week's G8 summit in Deauville (Report, 25 May) is a chance for world leaders to step up their support for healthcare that saves children's and mothers' lives. As the UN secretary general has...
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Country diary: Elton, Cambridgeshire
A side channel of the river Nene flows under the old derelict mill. In the midday sun the twirling house martins forage beakfuls of wet mud. The out channel is fringed with a swath of reed sweet-grass...
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Weatherwatch: a shower of frogs
In Paul Thomas Anderson's cult movie Magnolia, the final, climactic scene sees actor William H Macy being caught in a dramatic shower – not of rain, but of frogs.This may appear to be the figment of a...
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Hugh Muir's Diary
They plan for the worst but hope for the best. Exciting times for troubled G4S• It has been a difficult time for G4S, our favourite firm of people carriers, what with that difficulty over poor Jimmy...
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Inside politics: Suddenly David Cameron's cabinet is looking rather foxy |...
The coalition ministers can be divided into single-minded hedgehogs and the more tactical foxesIf you are a manager of either one of the two parties in government you watch Chris Huhne's travails – the...
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Oxford University appoints Israel studies professor with £3m donation
Derek Penslar will take up post as a fellow of St Anne's college next year to study the country's history 'within a global context'Oxford University has appointed its first chair of Israel studies to...
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Heinz left playing tomato catch-up after ketchup tasting trouncing
Red faces at veteran sauce-maker after cheap rivals pip 'nation's favourite' table productIt is the name synonymous with the nation's favourite sauce and one of the best-known brands in the world. But...
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Pygmalion - review
Garrick, LondonLast year in Chichester I found Philip Prowse's production of Shaw's indestructible play coarse and overstated. If it has improved, it is partly because it fits more snugly into a...
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Italy earthquake experts charged with manslaughter
Risks commission members to face trial over failure to give sufficient warning about L'Aquila earthquake in 2009Seven experts responsible for evaluating the threat of natural disasters in Italy have...
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David Cameron to visit Russia as diplomatic relations improve
Trip will be the first by a British prime minister since the murder of Russian KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in 2006David Cameron is to go to Moscow in September in what will be the first visit by a...
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LSE votes against setting £9,000 tuition fees
First of the elite Russell Group of top universities to charge less than the maximum feeThe academic board of the London School of Economics has determined by one vote, 68 to 67, not to charge £9,000...
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Barack Obama: Leadership is about deeds, not words | Editorial
The challenge of declining influence is not the relationship between America and Britain, but that of both countries to the non-western worldThey are a remarkable couple. The grandson of a Kenyan cook...
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