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Country diary: Highlands
Last Saturday the Highland Biological Recording Group held its spring meeting in its silver anniversary year. We gathered in Strathpeffer as members came in from far and wide. Some naturalists came...
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Hugh Muir's diary
If the Tories ever need an opaqueness tsar, Tim's on the spot• The cuts are biting deep and the civil service is suffering more than its fair share. But then that is only to be expected, for it does...
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Remembrance Day - review
Royal Court, LondonHow do we view the past? Do we forgive and forget, or keep alive ancient animosities? The questions may seem academic. But they are a living issue in Latvia where every 16 March...
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TV review: Midsomer Murders: Death In the Slow Lane
After Brian True-May's comments on the all-white casting the programme now feels soiled, says Mark LawsonViewers have always watched Midsomer Murders in a suspicious frame of mind, wondering which of...
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Derrick Bird 'could not have been stopped sooner'
Police response to Cumbria gunman was reasonable but lessons must be learned from the incident, says senior officerThe senior policeman investigating the response by Cumbria police to the Derrick Bird...
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Libya: Allied air strikes secure Misrata for rebels
Siege ends in key town as bombs destroy Gaddafi's tanks and artillery but regime continue to hold Ajdabiya despite air raidsNearly 12 hours of allied air strikes have broken the Libyan regime's...
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Elizabeth Taylor: The life, the looks, the movies, the smarts, the talent
Taylor was always bigger than her movies and even towards the end of her life, proved that age could not wither herThe Cleopatra costume will, surely, dominate the news reports but with all respect to...
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Debunking stereotypes: The French are always on strike
Nicolas Sarkozy is determined to change the widespread belief that the country is forever paralysed by industrial actionTo some, the defining image of France is a striking railway worker with a red...
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France plays hawk, Germany demurs. Libya has exposed Europe's fault lines |...
With the west at sixes and sevens, Gaddafi may yet get away with murder. And this in the year of EU unitySo Europeans are from Mars and Americans are from Venus. Those "cheese-eating surrender monkeys"...
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Response: George Monbiot is wrong. Nuclear power is not the way to fight...
Renewable energy is a safe, clean source which will become cheaper as we invest in itGeorge Monbiot argues of nuclear energy that the absence of less harmful alternatives has "converted me to the...
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France and the arts: a new revolution
Culture and the arts in France have traditionally been seen as sacrosanct, and thus considered immune to the state funding cuts sweeping the rest of Europe. But all that may be changingNavigating his...
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn - is this the man to defeat Sarkozy?
The French left may yet lose to the most unpopular president in the history of the fifth republicBy any normal reckoning, the French left should be on the verge of an electoral breakthrough. Nicolas...
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This 'neutral' budget's first principle is to attack equality
Osborne's measures aren't overtly sexist, regionalist, or classist, but the subtext is taking from the poorest to mollify the middleIf you were lucky enough to be listening to the 2011 budget live you...
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Letter: Peter Lennon obituary
Helen Oldfield writes: Editing Peter Lennon (obituary, 21 March) on the Guardian arts desk and Weekend magazine was a complete pleasure. He was mischievous, stubborn, principled and, above all, fun. In...
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Lecturers strike over pay and pensions
Thousands of staff at up to 500 universities and colleges stage walkout in protest at changes to pension scheme and pay cutsTens of thousands of university lecturers are staginga mass walkout over...
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A Magic Flute – review
Barbican, LondonThe indefinite article in the title is significant: this is Peter Brook's very personal take on Mozart's supreme, unclassifiable work, rather than a definitive staging of Die...
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From the archive, 24 March 1958: 117,000 votes, but no seat for the Liberals
Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 24 March 1958Mr Jo Grimond, leader of the Liberal party, said on Saturday that it was grossly undemocratic to exclude Liberals from a reasonable share...
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Can Jean-François Copé save France from anti-Muslim extremism?
The secretary-general of French president Nicolas Sarkozy's party may have the most difficult job in the countryJean-François Copé leans back and contemplates the Zorro-masked crusader figurine on his...
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German officials order all stray cats to be neutered
City of Bremen to take drastic action to tackle out-of-control feline population, which threatens local songbirdsAll stray cats in the north German city of Bremen are to be neutered under plans by the...
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