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NHS reforms: Mutuals will give staff 'right to provide'
Move to establish social enterprises which could be contracted to provide care likely to be seen as step towards privatisation Health secretary Andrew Lansley will invite doctors, nurses and other...
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Phone-hacking scandal will never end | Simon Hoggart
Chris Bryant, Labour attack dog, and John Yates of the Yard lock horns in front of the Commons home affairs committee.The great phone-hacking scandal goes on, endless but fascinating, rather like the...
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Frontline policing will be damaged by cuts, study warns
About two-thirds of police have contact with the public but will be difficult to retain in the face of 20% cuts, says HMICAbout two-thirds of the police workforce in England and Wales should be classed...
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Letters: Planning a better future together
Julian Glover's article about the "uglification of Britain" and the coalition government's desire "to break the stranglehold of a system that is bad at planning but good at shackling development"...
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Letters: Top shop arrests of peaceful protesters
A LexisNexis search of national newspapers reveals nearly 40 articles on UK Uncut's occupation of Fortnum & Mason (Report, 29 March). Barely a handful portrayed the action positively. Most linked...
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Weatherwatch: March's borrowing days
According to the novelist Sir Walter Scott – author of such classics as Ivanhoe and Rob Roy – the last three days of March are said to be the "borrowing days". These are supposed to be unusually...
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Corrections and clarifications
• An article examining a French school's radical approach to teaching children falling behind in maths, French and English suggested that Paul Robert, the headteacher, had been forced out of his...
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Letters: State must keep Care Not Custody promise
We welcome the commitment of the health secretary, Andrew Lansley, and the justice secretary, Ken Clarke, to divert people with mental health needs away from the justice system where possible and to...
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Letters: Coalition's SDP roots
Your leader (22 March) writes off the SDP as a blip in history and its values as being in search of a contemporary home. It only looks this way from the haughty heights of the traditionalist Labour...
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Letters: Destabilised Libya will be ripe for al-Qaida
You tell us about Libyan authorities manipulating news in their favour (Report, Media, 28 February). In fact, the overwhelming media slant is anti-Gaddafi, associating him, for example, with the threat...
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Letters: Talented Mr Ripley
Adam Posen, the Bank of England's "leading dove" (Report, 28 March) talks of "so-called core inflation, which strips out the effects of fuel, food costs and taxes such as VAT". So, apart from fuel,...
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Country diary: Wenlock Edge
Morning scattered a glitter of dew around white violets in a hedge bank. The flowers seemed even more vibrant for being imperfect. Just as a Zen potter might chip an otherwise perfect vase, so a slug...
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Eurozone crisis: The pain in Spain | Editorial
The Spanish crisis is no such thing: it is in fact three big problems rolled into one huge and enduring messWhat economists and policymakers sometimes call the Spanish crisis is no such thing: it is in...
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In praise of… porridge | Editorial
A dish once more important than bread, and in more recent decades a well-known Scottish substitute for central heatingRemnants of it have been found in the stomachs of 5,000-year-old bodies preserved...
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AV referendum: Building bridges | Editorial
After a year of unprecedented bitterness Labour leader Ed Miliband appeared on a joint platform with senior Lib DemsA future generation of British political historians may be tempted to award a modest...
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Hugh Muir's diary
They used to shout, they liked to swear, the mood was black,their teeth were bared. Ah the spads, we remember them well• New Labour. Remember them? Remember the hard-faced advisers rushing around...
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Keats love letter sells at auction for £96,000
Last love letter by the poet still in private hands bought by the City of London corporation for display in museum"Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold" wrote John Keats in 1816 – but a love...
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Zadie Smith joins campaign to save her local library
Author makes clear her belief in community institutions and speaks out in bid to save branch at Kensal RiseDwarfed by a massive electric crucifix and surrounded by dusty portraits of saints, Zadie...
View ArticleSteve Bell on David Cameron and Libya - cartoon
At least £25m will have been spent by British forces, most accounted for by weaponsSteve Bell
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Review | Old Vic | Cause Célèbre | Michael Billington
Old Vic, LondonSomewhat coolly received at its premiere in 1977, Terence Rattigan's final play stands the test of time.And, watching Thea Sharrock's fine revival, I was struck by how many classic...
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