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Banks must make mortgage conditions tougher for homebuyers, says IPPR
IPPR also wants more controls on buy-to-let lending to stop property speculators feeding runaway housing marketHomebuyers should be legally required to put down a minimum 10% deposit and borrow no more...
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Police rescue record number of children from online paedophiles
Specialist CEOP unit arrests more than 500 suspects in most successful year since its creation in 2006A record number of children have been rescued from immediate danger by a specialist police unit...
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Housing market fears as 'generation rent' keeps away from property ladder
Survey shows high prices and hefty deposits means two-thirds of would-be first-time buyers are unlikely to buy a home in the next five yearsTwo-thirds of potential first-time buyers have no realistic...
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National Trust's talking benches to use voices of celebrities
Visitors will be able to listen to Stephen Fry, Miranda Hart and John Sergeant while touring historic homes and gardensA beautiful day out, a tramp round a stately home, a walk in the gardens, and then...
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Asteroids: In search of stardust | Editorial
Nasa has announced the ultimate smash-and-grab raid: the first attempt to collect a handful of asteroid rock and bring it back to EarthThe US space agency Nasa has announced the ultimate smash-and-grab...
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Construction sector insolvencies jump by nearly a fifth
Figures fuel fears for industry already in recession as cuts in public spending take effectExperts warned on Monday that the construction industry could sink deeper into recession as the number of...
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Care is failing 1.5 million people with learning disabilities
Spending cuts are bringing system to the brink of collapse, says a report commissioned by the Department of HealthThe system of care and support for the 1.5 million people who have a learning...
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Letters: Deficiencies in care for older people
It is worthy of note that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) only discovered the extent of the failures in the care of older patients in hospital when it made on-site spot checks and saw for itself...
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Hugh Muir's diary
He came, he saw, he did a speedy headcount. Patten gets going at the BBC• Nervy times recently for the multitudes of senior managers at the BBC, as they awaited their first meeting with the new...
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Corrections and clarifications
• Mentioning a previous government deployment of riot police in Belgrade, an article said this was occasioned two years ago by protests over the arrest of the former Bosnian Serb political leader...
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Letter: War prevention
Sebastian Bieber (Letters, 28 May) says we have to choose between concepts of just and unjust wars. That ought not to be our major preoccupation. What matters most is the effort we make to prevent wars...
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Questions on the autistic spectrum
As a layman I hesitate to enter the autism debate with such an acknowledged expert as Lorna Wing, and especially one who has done so very much to raise awareness of the condition (Love's labour, G2, 24...
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Letters: The difficulty of neutrality on Israel
Derek Penslar (First professor of Israel studies at Oxford vows neutrality, 27 May) says he will strive for political neutrality in a professorship created with a £3m donation from long-standing...
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Letters: Tackling institutionalised discrimination in our universities
That there are "14,000 British professors – but only 50 are black" (Report, 27 May) shows not only the gross underrepresentation of black people among staff in higher education, but also a socially...
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Old-fashioned paper
I was surprised that your article (HR – your friend or your foe?, Work, 28 May) contained only one cursory mention of the role of trade unions. When I was first elected as a workplace TU rep, an HR...
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Super typhoon Songda tears past the Philippines
The first typhoon of the season, named Songda, hit the Philippines last Wednesday. Typhoon Songda passed close to north-eastern areas of the Philippines with sustained winds of around 80mph and gusts...
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MPs and the judiciary: Judging the judges | Editorial
In the crude calculus of who is up and who is down, judges are scoring better than MPs these days. Not surprisingly, MPs are resentfulIn the crude calculus of who is up and who is down, judges are...
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In praise of … teapots | Editorial
The British are notorious cultural thieves, a habit of pilfering strikingly shown in the country's most iconic drink, teaThe British are notorious cultural thieves, a habit of pilfering strikingly...
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Country diary: Wigborough, Somerset
Feeling our way down unfamiliar lanes near Martock, we arrived at a dead end, with scarcely enough space to turn round, and high banks on either side. When a child's voice from behind a hedge asked us...
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Gaddafi wants truce in Libya, says Zuma, but terms unclear
Leader appears in public to meet South African president on peace mission as more senior officials defect regimeSouth Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, said on Monday night that Muammar Gaddafi was ready...
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