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Brixton: could it happen again? 30 years after the riots
It is 30 years since Brixton was torn apart by riots. Today it is a place transformed – but drastic cuts and rising unemployment are threatening its renaissance. By Peter WalkerJust after 6pm on a mild...
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Bidisha's thought for the day: Women's genius
Rejoice! Women are staking out their territory in the art world, and about time tooRejoice! The great wheel of the women's cultural revolution turns again. The Birds Eye View film festival ended in...
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'I couldn't have done anything else' – Brixton riots policeman tells his story
When Steve Margiotta chased a young bleeding man it sparked the Brixton riots and ultimately reshaped race relations in Britain• With cuts and unemployment, could it happen again?The policeman who...
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Omagh murder fuels fears that terror groups have new weapons
Anti-ceasefire republicans better-organised, say security forces as booby-trapped car kills 25-year-old Ronan KerrRepublican dissidents have perfected a new generation of weapons with which to launch a...
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RAF stretched to limit, air chief warns
Exclusive: Air Chief Marshal says it can cope with planned six months in Libya but extra cash required in 2014-15 reviewThe head of the RAF has issued a blunt warning that the service will need...
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RAF chief Sir Stephen Dalton makes case for Britain's air power
Air Chief Marshal warns paymasters that RAF's 'core capabilities remain essential for all types of warfare'The armed forces will on Monday once again remind their personnel that their country needs...
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A Cavalier for Milady – review
Cock Tavern, LondonYou have to admire the enterprise of this tiny north-London pub theatre. In celebration of the centenary of Tennessee Williams's birth, it has staged no less than two world...
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Assisted dying campaigners split over right to die for those not terminally ill
Opponents say the case of a woman with crippling arthritis who died at Swiss clinic shows a shifting of the goalpostsA leading campaigner for assisted dying, who opted to die in Switzerland despite...
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Messages – review
Town Hall, HuddersfieldThe Huddersfield Choral Society may still be best known for its annual performances of Messiah, but this season it has been celebrating its 175th anniversary with much more than...
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Benjamin Zephaniah dropped from pro-AV leaflets
No campaign accuses opponents of pandering to extremist opinions by replacing black poet in literature outside LondonVoting reform campaigners have been accused by their opponents of removing Benjamin...
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Jaga Jazzist – review
Scala, King's CrossJaga Jazzist aren't a jazz band, but they're not exclusively any other kind of band either. The 15-year-old Norwegian collective is guided by a jazz/improv sensibility and cool...
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David Cameron set to announce delay to NHS reforms
Government preparing to bow to insurmountable opposition by putting its NHS reform bill on hold for up to three monthsDavid Cameron is preparing to bow to insurmountable political opposition by putting...
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Piccard in Space – review
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThere is a squeeze on stage for Will Gregory's new opera. Besides the BBC Concert orchestra and conductor Charles Hazelwood, there are a half-dozen Moog synthesisers and a...
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Dum Dum Girls – review
Deaf Institute, ManchesterIf you cross Phil Spector's 60s girl groups with west-coast pop, then throw in British C86 indie and the Jesus and Mary Chain's bittersweet walls of noise, you probably end up...
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Murray Perahia – review
Barbican Hall, LondonThis was, in many ways, a typical Murray Perahia programme: works by five of the keyboard's greatest composers, plus an encore by a sixth, all knitting together to form a...
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Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
Spring came to me this morning in one its stranger but also perhaps more sensuous guises. I lifted the lid on our compost bin and there were several hundred earthworms wound almost continuously around...
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MI5 bugged leading intellectuals and journalists in 1950s, files show
Dr Jacob Bronowski and editor Cyril Connolly were among those whose political views were suspected by the secret servicesMI5 bugged the phones of leftwing journalists and writers in an intensive but...
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Ministers ignoring Child Poverty Act, warn family campaigners
Government challenged over failure to implement act fully and likely deviation from markers that measure social mobilityChild poverty campaigners have written to the government warning ministers that...
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Voting system: Time for a fairer alternative | Editorial
For most of the 19th century, and for several decades in the middle of the 20th, British politics was a two-horse race. Those times are over.In those far off Gilbertian days when nature contrived that...
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Northern Ireland: Not the end of history yet | Editorial
The murder of Ronan Kerr is not a random event. It is unquestionably part of a continuing patternThe booby-trap bomb killing of a young police officer in Northern Ireland at the weekend feels like a...
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