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Letters: New benchmarks for education
Warwick Mansell has laid bare the risk of increased social segregation in state schools thanks to a range of reforms proposed by government that will reduce scrutiny of school admission arrangements...
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Retailers told growth era may be over
• Next's Wolfson says 'retail in UK is going to be different'• February retail sales down 0.8% on January• B&Q boss – UK was weakest market after Ireland in 2010Britain's retailers will have a much...
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Libya: the morality of intervention | Bernard Kouchner
The Libyan crisis has shown how a united Europe can be used as a force for common goodCould we leave Colonel Gaddafi's victims to die in full view of our TV cameras? I think not. It is quite...
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Borrowing costs hit record high as GDP falls
Yield on 10-year bonds break through 10% barrier as data shows economy shrank by 1% last yearInvestor jitters over the health of the Irish economy sent yields on the country's 10-year bonds to 10.21%...
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Letters: Between the Rock and a hard place
Dennis Grainger (Letters, 23 March) gives a distorted view of shareholders' rights. During 2007 there was much stock exchange speculation in Northern Rock shares, buoyed by the common knowledge that...
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Letters: Blood donors
Can I address the point made by Nora Pearce regarding privatising the National Blood Service (Reasons to be fearful, G2, 22 March)? There has been no decision made, nor have any proposals been made to...
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Qatar's decision to send planes to Libya is part of a high-stakes game
The tiny Gulf state is keen to gain influence out of proportion to its size through diplomacy and al-JazeeraIn an air-conditioned room down an alley in the old market of Qatar's capital Doha,...
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Budget 2011: George Osborne's strategy at risk of 'being blown off course'
Average households to be £750 a year worse off while NHS funding pledge is 'sailing perilously close to the winds'George Osborne's deficit-cutting strategy is at risk of being blown off course by...
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Police find body of Sian O'Callaghan and search for another nearby
Suspect leads police to site where body found is 'quite clearly' that of Sian O'Callaghan, while taxi driver's house is searchedThe search for the missing Swindon woman Sian O'Callaghan has taken a...
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BP's Russian deal with Rosneft blocked by court
• Oligarchs from BP's present venture in TNK-BP triumph• BP to try to proceed with $16bn share swap, Arctic venture off• Decision a blow to new chief Bob Dudley after 2010's Gulf spillBP's...
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'Night stalker' claimed he was framed by ex-wife
Delroy Grant said woman collected his body fluids and kept them in medical storage to be planted around London years laterDelroy Grant's DNA was collected from 10 of the crime scenes, often from...
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Britain has long been a poor venue for protest – Saturday won't change this |...
This outdated ritual of banners, pushchairs, linked hands and incantations won't turn Trafalgar into TahrirTrafalgar Square is not Tahrir Square. London is not Cairo. George Osborne's budget is not the...
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Syrian people outraged over government shootings in Daraa
Human rights groups say that more than 100 people may have been killed when troops opened fire on a mosqueSyria's government pledged to consider protesters' "legitimate demands" after thousands took to...
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Ed Miliband's Libya response shows he is no longer 'son of Gordon Brown'
After his criticism of the Iraq war, the Labour leader can approach challenge of a new intervention from first principlesJames Callaghan, as a defeated Labour prime minister, was asked how he thought...
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Nintendo 3DS draws gamers looking for 'glasses-free' 3D console
Japanese company's latest console is first to make parallax barrier technology available to global audienceUntil now, those who wanted to watch 3D pictures required a cheap set of plastic glasses and...
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Geoff Boycott under fire for comments on Michael Yardy's depression
Mental health charity praises England all-rounder for admitting illness and criticises Boycott for connecting it to his performanceThe England cricketer Michael Yardy has left the World Cup squad 48...
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Yemeni president faces fewer options
Ali Abdullah Saleh has already offered to stand down next year as tensions grow before a rally planned for FridayYemen's opposition has stepped up efforts to remove President Ali Abdullah Saleh,...
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Osborne's budget speech was like a Brown tribute album | Martin Kettle
In terms of ideology and economics the two chancellors are deeply opposed, but their political moves are eerily similarAt first sight, no two chancellors of modern times appear such complete opposites...
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Phone hacking: Metropolitan police chief keeps up row with DPP
Amid claims families of murdered girls may have been targeted, John Yates admits Met damaged by scandalThe extraordinary public clash between the Metropolitan police and the director of public...
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WPP poised to return to UK – but how many are following suit?
Other companies to have moved offshore recently are tight-lipped or cautious about redomiciling in BritainGeorge Osborne's claim that tax cuts in the budget showed "Britain is open for business" has...
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