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Sharon Shoesmith ruling: Welcome but few cheers
Blame lay with Ed Balls for rushing his fences too eagerly and Haringey for following him over them too blindlyIn its headline-making judgment on the Sharon Shoesmith dismissal case yesterday, the...
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Unthinkable? A freeze on Fifa
It would seem shameful if the Fifa presidential elections due to take place next week were permitted to go aheadTonight at Wembley perhaps the greatest football team in the world takes on one of their...
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Take That – review
Stadium of Light, SunderlandThe doom-mongery about the music business is put into sobering perspective by the eyewatering statistics concerning Take That's live reunion with Robbie Williams, touring...
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Amid the jumble, the story of Britain's age of silver
A cluttered and closed Birmingham silverware factory stands testament to a noble timeNext week in Birmingham a chaotic memorial to British manufacturing will be unveiled. It isn't easy to know how to...
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Simon Hoggart's week: A tweet in store – Mrs Farnsbarns and the milkman
Privacy is not just an issue for the rich and famous – anyone's indiscretions can be round the world in seconds✒The argument about injunctions and tweeting has, so far, been largely about the rights of...
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TV review: Paul Merton's Birth of Hollywood
Paul Merton gets the juice on Hollywood's early yearsWhy does Paul Merton dress as the Man from Del Monte whenever he goes abroad? He did it when he went travelling round China, and then again for his...
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Face to faith: The only way I could help a girl whose boyfriend had just...
The only way I could help a girl whose boyfriend had just killed himself was to listenI was at Bristol Temple Meads and a five-hour train journey lay ahead. A party of young people boarded and a girl...
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Children don't need Brain Gym to spot nonsense | Ben Goldacre
Information is more accessible than ever for smart, motivated people – and, yes, kids too – so let's allow them to share itIf you can tear yourself away from Ryan Giggs' penis for just one moment, I...
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It's a baking-and-Bunnygirls backlash: we're going back to the 50s
What we are seeing is just how far the Tories' liberalism goesWhat's happening, man? I feel lately like I fell asleep and have woken up in the 60s. Not the swinging 60s when we all loosened up, but the...
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The conversation: Ryan Giggs – an opened secret
John Hemming MP, who named Ryan Giggs as the footballer behind an injunction, talks to Alastair Campbell, who thinks he misused his parliamentary privilegeOn Monday, the Liberal Democrat MP John...
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Gil Scott-Heron obituary
African-American poet and musician whose political awareness led him to celebrate black culture in influential recordingsIn 1970, the American poet and jazz musician Gil Scott-Heron, who has died aged...
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Coalition's £56m a day bill to private companies
Nearly 3,000 contracts awarded since January prompts Treasury to clamp down on 'use it or lose it' spending policyThe coalition has contracted private companies at the rate of nearly £56.6m a day since...
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UK developing cyber-weapons programme to counter cyber war threat
Military to gain a new range of offensive options to defend critical installations around the country from cyber attacksThe UK is developing a cyber-weapons programme that will give ministers an...
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Stuxnet attack forced Britain to rethink the cyber war
Virus uniquely programmed to attack Iran's nuclear facility showed power of cyber-weapons had reached chilling new levelThe pieces of the puzzle began to take shape, and then fall into place, on 17...
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Threat now is from weapons of mass disruption
To an old soldier, this is bloody scary. We must revolutionise our approach to deal with cyber attacksThese last few centuries have, to put it bluntly, been bloody simple – bloody in the numbers of...
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Lib Dems warning to government on big society faith groups
Protect secularism and prevent proselytising, urge grassroots Lib Dems following involvement of faith groups in public servicesGrassroots Liberal Democrats are to press for government guarantees that...
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Forget a cyber Maginot line | Nick Harvey
In this new dimension the west must act now to drive a global consensus on cyberspace securityThe late JG Ballard once told the Guardian that in cyberspace "the entire human experience seems to unveil...
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Fifa crisis: claims of brown envelopes stuffed with new $100 bills
Pictures of a brown envelope containing $40,000 (£24,000) have been released by a Caribbean football officialPictures of a brown envelope containing $40,000 (£24,000) have been released by a Caribbean...
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Genetics tests flawed and inaccurate, say Dutch scientists
Investigation found they gave wildly different results and arrived at predictions that were no better than flipping a coinPersonalised health tests that screen thousands of genes for versions that...
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Being like David Beckham is not what children aspire to, study finds
Family friends and teachers are more likely to influence youngsters than footballersTheir conduct on and off the pitch may sometimes cause parents to fret, but it seems the notion that footballers such...
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