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Public hostility to politics will deliver a yes to AV | Martin Kettle
The mood is for change: people hate the system and believe in fairness. The May vote will have lasting consequences for British politicsThe alternative vote is to British domestic politics what the...
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Schools to be held accountable for pupils' career success
Proportion of students in work to be revealed, but heads fear plans may lead to another league tableSchools will be held accountable for the career success of their pupils under a government plan to...
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Forest sell-off minister falls on her own axe
Caroline Spelman does the virtuous thing, while making sure we all know about itIhave worked out what this government is really like: the dodgems at a fairground. Ministers all sit in their own car...
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NHS hospitals begin axing frontline staff despite government pledge
Two major hospitals shed hundreds of jobs despite repeated government pledges to protect NHS servicesThe government's repeated pledges to protect frontline NHS services have been dramatically...
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Welfare reform: 'most radical shake-up for 60 years'
The aim is for a simpler, cheaper system that will save £18bn in four years. But the unseemly rush for savings has casualties, such as the concept that national insurance is an insurance policyIain...
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Bahrain uses UK-supplied weapons in protest crackdown
MoD to review arms export licences after Bahrain clears protesters with UK-made crowd-controls weapons such as teargas and stun grenadesThe British government has launched a review of arms exports to...
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Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in a coma
Former Tunisian leader in hospital in Saudi Arabia after suffering a stroke two days ago, according to French agenciesThe former Tunisian leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali is in a coma in hospital in...
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Welfare reform: Find a job or lose benefits, mothers to be told
New universal credit simplifies current system but 1.7m households are set to be worse off after shake-upAll stay at home mothers claiming the government's new universal credit will be required to make...
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US schoolboy wrestler refuses match with female opponent
Joel Northrup of Iowa pulls out of contest 'as matter of conscience and faith'An American high school wrestler among favourites to win his weight class defaulted on his first-round state tournament...
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Dewani murder case: How grieving husband became suspect
Claims of police torture and rapid plea bargains by under-pressure crime unit raise questions over Anni Dewani murderThe police moved swiftly. The murder of honeymooner Anni Dewani in a township on the...
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Banksy goes to Hollywood? Works mark runup to Oscars
A drugged-up Minnie Mouse and arsonist Charlie Brown pop up in tinseltown as guerilla artist's film nominated for awardWith a drunken Mickey Mouse looming over Sunset Boulevard and a urinating dog in...
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US archbishop Justin Rigali orders inquiry into paedophile priests
Report says as many as 37 men with evidence of sexual abuse allegations against them remained in active ministryA senior Catholic in the US has ordered an investigation into paedophile priests after a...
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Bahrain's quiet anger turns to rage
Demonstrators vow to avenge three men killed by police during a pre-dawn raid on their base camp in the centre of the capitalThe doctor had arrived at work to treat the wounded, but instead he became...
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Man charged with torture and murder of 77-year-old woman
£30,000 reward was offered by Hampshire police in search for killerA 32-year-old man was has been charged with the torture and murder of an elderly woman more than three years ago.Georgina Edmonds, 77,...
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Schools' counter terrorism project scrapped
Teachers feared £12.5m Channel project to identify radicalised children was 'anti-Islamic'A Home Office counter terrorism programme that encourages teachers and community leaders to identify and report...
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Social security: The new poor law | Editorial
Clause 93 provides for a crude benefit cap to be imposed irrespective of circumstancesThe venue was carefully chosen, and the prime minister struck his most progressive note. In Toynbee Hall, east...
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Bahrain: No conflict. Plenty of interest | Editorial
The strategic interests of the US, Britain and France and the values they uphold appeared in stark contrastOn Tuesday President Barack Obama found it ironic that an Iranian regime which had celebrated...
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In praise of … the graceful retreat | Editorial
Was David Cameron happy with his forestry policy? He wasn't; and now he has ditched it.The Latin language distinguishes between questions expecting the answer yes, which are prefaced by "nonne", and...
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Letters: Sudan and the west's relations with Africa
In your WikiLeaks round-up (After WikiLeaks, 5 February) there is a reference to the claim by the international criminal court's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, that President Omar al-Bashir...
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Response: We don't need to de-industrialise to meet our emissions targets
Investing in a low-carbon economy will create growth and keep Europe competitiveIn your article on the debate over reducing European greenhouse gas emissions, EU energy commissioner Günther Oettinger...
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