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Letters: Tons and tonnes
At Christ Church, Oxford, Michelle Obama told students from an inner-city school where 54% receive free school meals: "All of us believe that you belong here" (Report, 26 May). Does this include a...
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Letter: Scientists could use FoI law safeguards
The president of the Royal Society calls for changes to freedom of information laws to prevent them being misused (Data laws 'misused' in climate change row, 26 May). However, existing safeguards...
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Letters: Broken promises on aid for Africa
There are sound reasons for agreeing with Timothy Garton Ash's assessment of this week's G8 meeting in Deauville (If Obama really wants to lead us to a free world, he should abolish the G8, 26 May). We...
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Academies and free schools get right to reserve places for poorer pupils
New code designed to stop middle-income families moving near to popular schools – but other state schools miss out on cashAcademy and free schools will be allowed to reserve places for children...
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Royal wedding and sunshine give consumers the feelgood factor
The latest snapshot of household sentiment from Gfk NOP Social Research shows consumer confidence is returningBritain's consumers became far less gloomy over the past month with the royal wedding, good...
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Country diary: South Uist
The pilot whales moved in a tightly knit group, swimming side by side and crisscrossing each other's tracks. Sleek backs and broad-based dorsal fins appeared, disappeared and reappeared, each creature...
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Cereal farmers are praying for rain
Records are tumbling across the east and south of the country for the driest spell since records began. Cambridge Botanical Gardens, for example, had the driest March (3mm) and April (1.7mm) since...
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Debutante turned surrealist Leonora Carrington dies at 94
Lancashire-born artist, a painter associated with host of 2oth century greats, dies in Mexico hospitalLeonora Carrington, the Lancashire-born former debutante who eloped with Max Ernst and became one...
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Ratko Mladic: An old man faces justice | Editorial
Belgrade has sent a clear message that it intends to turn the page and start rebuilding the country and the regionThe 16 years in which Ratko Mladic has roamed free in Serbia is not a long time in...
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Hugh Muir's diary
For just £38,000, Eric Pickles can help his own staff avoid the sack. Talk about best value• It's a time of smoke and mirrors but anyone with half a brain knows that. So when the Department for...
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In praise of … Blackburn with Darwen | Editorial
With a high youth population, the towns' comprehensive children's centres helped inspire Sure StartThe wheel turns. An industrial powerhouse declines from the busiest cotton-spinning town in the world,...
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George Osborne: A lonely figure | Editorial
Far from things getting better for the economy, under Osborne they are getting steadily worseRare is the George Osborne speech that does not begin with a roll call of groups that support his spending...
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Appeal court to rule on council sacking after Baby P's death
Haringey's former head of child services argues her dismissal by minister Ed Balls was unlawful and due to media pressureHaringey's former head of child services will learn today if she has won her...
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Ash cloud: 2m will take to skies in holiday getaway
Heathrow to have busiest Whitsun bank holiday for 10 years with New York, Dubai and Dublin top three destinationsMore than 2 million people are expected to pass through UK airports this weekend as...
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Poland: Immigration to UK is back for good life despite economic crisis
Migration from eastern Europe on the rise again, with return to UK 'driven by disappointment at home'The conventional narrative of the last three years suggested that as soon as the clouds of financial...
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Far-right attacks escalate after BNP election defeats
Glass and rocks hurled at anti-racism meeting in east LondonFar-right activists have attacked trade union meetings and anti-racist groups in the past month in what campaigners and politicians say is an...
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Bradley Manning inspires new work for National Theatre of Wales
One highlight of the next two years will be a work called The Radicalisation of Bradley ManningA dramatisation based on the teenage school years of the WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning in...
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The Goon Show must go on – 60 years since its first broadcast
Prince Charles, Goon fan and patron of the Goon Show Preservation Society, to give message to mark anniversarySpike Milligan and his partners in anarchy may have gone to the Great Studio in the Sky but...
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Immigration case study: Staying on From the Philippines to Wales
Casaban-Rose is one of many nurses and professional carers from the Philippines who have settled in WalesKatherine Cabasan-Rose arrived in Wales from the Philippines thinking it would be a good...
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Response: There's no Chinese 'shadow party structure' inside our company
To suggest telecoms giant Huawei gets special favours from its government is falseIsabel Hilton urges British businesses to be more cautious in their dealings with Chinese corporations (Chinese...
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