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Residential care: In a decrepit state | Editorial
The corporate brokering will seal the fate of the faltering care giant, Southern CrossAround 30,000 of our frailest citizens have suddenly acquired an anxiety-inducing interest in complex negotiations...
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Drugs and the law: state of confusion
The laws governing drug possession and abuse aren't clearForty years after the introduction of the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act, more than 2.8 million people report using illicit drugs every year in...
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Letters: Truth about deaths in Bangladesh war
My attention has been drawn to a recent letter from a former deputy head of the BBC's Bengali Service Serajur Rahman (Letters, 24 May) relating to casualties in the 1971 Bangladesh war of liberation...
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Bristol and Glasgow: 'super cities' that will lead manufacturing renaissance
HSBC report optimistic about future of British manufacturingBristol and Glasgow have emerged as the "super cities" that will lead the rebalancing of British manufacturing towards hi-tech production and...
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Letters: Tenancy rights need a shakeup to protect 'generation rent'
The modest housing market reforms advocated by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) are welcome, but could take decades to slow or even reverse the trend towards "generation rent" (Housing...
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Letters: A game of two halves
The reforms announced by Sepp Blatter at the Fifa congress are to be welcomed, even if they are somewhat overdue (Report, 1 June). However, the establishment of a new committee on corporate governance,...
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Letters: Christian: a lion's tale
May I point out some strange omissions and factual inaccuracies in your article (Our joy and pride, Family, 28 May). The "scratchy homemade film" was, in fact, a professional production co-directed,...
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Letters: Our planet's appetite for destruction
Oxfam is right to highlight the long-term impacts of climate change, land grabbing and natural resource degradation on the price of staple foods, and the consequent rapid increase in the number of...
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Corrections and clarifications
• The Saturday Review (Infamous enormities, 28 May, page 20) ran an extract from the introduction, by Martin Amis, to The King's English, written by his father, Kingsley. The Review article contained...
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Letter: Access to university and asylum seekers
Harriet Swain's article on the new policy of charging international fees to young people with discretionary leave to remain highlights the latest blow to young asylum seekers' chances of getting to...
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UK ecosystem assessment warns of decline in green space
Defra report points out £30bn annual health and welfare benefits from maintaining natural assetsMaintaining the UK's green spaces would reap at least £30bn a year in health and welfare benefits,...
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Syria: Truth will out | Editorial
President should let foreign press in to hear the Syrian people speak for themselvesEvery revolution has its face. In Iran, it was Neda Soltani, who was shot in the chest during a demonstration. In...
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In praise of… Stewart Lee | Editorial
His performances unfurl like a stroll on a summer's day: scenery and good companionship take precedence over destinationWhen praising a comedian it is generally a good idea to quote one of his or her...
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Country diary: Dingwall mart
The annual meeting of the Highland Livestock Heritage Society was held at this mart last Thursday and as I waited for it to start I pondered on what we have achieved in the past few years. One success...
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Weatherwatch: wind and power transmission
A nice breeze is pleasantly cooling when you're too hot, and it can benefit power lines in exactly the same way. Increasing the amount of electricity causes a line to heat up, and this is a big...
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Decriminalise possession of drugs, celebrities urge government
Campaign headed by actors, academics and lawyers says current drugs laws stigmatise people and damage communitiesDame Judi Dench, Sir Richard Branson, and Sting have joined an ex-drugs minister and...
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Hugh Muir's diary
How to make friends in the exercise yard. Lord Taylor's got it cracked• As he adjusts from life in the controlled environment that is the House of Lords to a good few months in the controlled...
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Henry Kissinger recommended for Fifa anti-corruption squad
Sepp Blatter backs friend and former US secretary of state for 'solution committee' to restore faith in the game's governing bodyAn hour after winning his unopposed presidential election yesterday,...
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VS Naipaul finds no women writer his literary match – not even Jane Austen
Nobel laureate says there is no female author whom he considers his equalVS Naipaul, no stranger to literary spats and rows, has done it again. This time, the winner of the Nobel prize for literature...
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160,000 asylum seekers granted amnesty by the backdoor, say MPs
Report says another 74,500 cases 'cannot be traced' while the immigration minister hails elimination of backlog from systemAn "amnesty" has been quietly granted to more than 160,000 asylum seekers over...
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