A matter of will: Privacy injunctions | Editorial
There is nothing to stop the PCC regaining a prominent role in issues of privacy - but that is best done by the collective will of editorsThere was a significant, if little reported, intervention in...
View ArticleIn praise of … King Canute | Editorial
It's time to find a different figure than the celebrated monarch when talking of judges and court injunctionsThroughout the recent agitation over court injunctions and Twitter, one celebrated figure...
View ArticleCoalition has abandoned young graduates to underemployment, says John Denham
Shadow business secretary condemns government for 'betraying the hopes of a young generation' by failing to create the right conditions for skilled job creationLabour will today make a direct appeal to...
View ArticleElectric car capital race hots up as London adds charging points
New Source London scheme means city now has 400 points – but can it beat Berlin, Paris and San Francisco?London made a significant step towards becoming the "electric car capital of Europe" with the...
View ArticleGive children feedback to improve standards in school, says new guide
Reducing class sizes or setting homework contribute little to raise standards, research findsForget school uniforms and streaming by ability: schools will raise standards if they focus on giving...
View ArticleObama, hands off our spring | Soumaya Ghannoushi
The US wants to turn the Arab revolutions into eastern Europe part 2. It is destined to failThe first wave of Arab revolutions is entering its second phase: dismantling the structures of political...
View ArticleResponse: Longer sentences alone will not break the cycle of reoffending
Practical support on the outside will prevent prison leavers from resorting to crimeYour report on research from the Ministry of Justice was unsurprising (Short jail terms have higher rate of...
View ArticleHow important is gender? | Julie Bindel and Oliver James
Julie Bindel and Oliver James discuss the merits or otherwise of keeping a child's sex secretJulie Bindel: Time to end our gender obsessionThe reaction to the couple who have refused to announce the...
View ArticleAl-Qaida's diversity policy ridicules ethnic profiling | Mehdi Hasan
White, Hispanic, Nigerian, American: the identity of terrorists exposes the crude, counterproductive nature of this security toolOn 6 May, five days after the killing of Osama bin Laden, two imams were...
View ArticleSoftly, softly is working for the anti-abortionists | Clare Murphy
Thanks to new stealth tactics, anti-abortionists are having an undue influence on policyThere is a moral divide between freedom of speech and deliberately intimidating women at a difficult time – as we...
View ArticleFrom the archive, 26 May 1956: Never again the "old Charlie"
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 26 May 1956SHEPPERTON, FRIDAYMr Charles Chaplin tonight had honours heaped on him by the British industry. But during the formal proceedings in the...
View ArticleFormer Hutu militia leader arrested over Rwanda genocide
Bernard Munyagishari, wanted on charges of crimes against humanity, arrested in Congo after 17 yearsA suspected mastermind of the Rwandan genocide has been captured 17 years later in neighbouring...
View ArticleMexican drug battle leaves 28 dead
Police discover dead men on federal highway in Nayarit while scores of villagers flee their homes in MichoacánFierce fighting among apparent rival drug gangs in western Mexico has left 28 people dead...
View ArticleBarack Obama leaves UK for France
US president's state visit to UK hailed a success following dinner at ambassador's house held in honour of the QueenAlexandra ToppingThe US president bade farewell to the UK yesterday with a brief wave...
View ArticleShotgun murderer given four life sentences
John Cooper found guilty of four killings in 1980s that rocked rural west WalesA former farm labourer has been given four life sentences for four shotgun murders that rocked a quiet community in west...
View ArticleRatko Mladic: career officer infamous for the Srebrenica massacre
Military mastermind of Bosnia's destruction repeatedly claimed he was on a mission of vengeanceThe capture of Ratko Mladic, the military mastermind of the destruction of Bosnia, closes more than a...
View ArticleFace to face with Ratko Mladic, the swaggering 'super-general'
Ian Traynor covered the Bosnian war for the Guardian. Here he describes his encounters with Ratko MladicSpringtime in Bosnia, the best and the worst of times. General Ratko Mladic was having the time...
View ArticleUN makes plea for military helicopters
Peacekeepers hope countries fighting insurgency in Afghanistan will offer their helicopters when operations end in 2014The head of UN peacekeeping operations has made an impassioned plea to Britain and...
View ArticleYouTube Saudi woman driver faces further 10-day jail term
Manal al-Sharif, the Saudi mother arrested for uploading a video of her driving on YouTube, faces another 10 days in jailA Saudi Arabian woman who posted a video online of her driving her car is facing...
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