Britain has allowed its weapons to be used for internal repression, MPs say
Committee calls for review of successive governments' dealings with authoritarian regimes worldwideSuccessive governments have allowed British arms supplied to north Africa and the Middle East to be...
View ArticleExperts speak out on what Andrew Lansley should change in his health bill
As the health secretary delays legislation, professionals and politicians say what they think he should do now with his plansThe health secretary, Andrew Lansley, said that he would delay the health...
View ArticleIvory Coast: The final battle | Editorial
Responsibility to protect loomed large in the debate about intervening in Libya, but was long curiously absent from Ivory CoastResponsibility to protect loomed large in the debate about intervening in...
View ArticleIn praise of … Terence Rattigan | Editorial
A great injustice was done when the plays of Rattigan were swept aside by the Royal Court-led theatrical revolution of the 1950sIt has long been recognised that a great injustice was done when the...
View ArticleLetters: Walking a fine line in nuclear debate
John Vidal questions whether official estimates of the risk of radiation exposure are accurate, and points to health effects around Chernobyl as a clear indication that they are not (Nuclear's green...
View ArticleCorrections and clarifications
• An article about the 1991 killings of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan in Castlerock, County Derry, wrongly referred to the deceased as lovers. The two were murdered by their respective spouses, who...
View ArticleDavid Cameron visits Islamabad to patch up relations with Pakistan
Prime minister seeks to 'deepen the unbreakable partnership' and plans to announce extra aid for PakistanDavid Cameron is to try to mend relations with the Pakistani government with a lightning visit...
View ArticleLetters: Shimon Peres, the Arab spring and the Goldstone report
A pleasure to hear from Shimon Peres that "Israel welcomes the Arab spring" (Clash of generations, 1 April), particularly given its initial response, as reported in both Haaretz and the Jewish...
View ArticleLetters: Silk routes
Peter Silverton may be right about Heathcliff intending to call Nelly Dean a Jeremy (Letters, 4 April). A simpler explanation is that for 19th-century people, "bitch" was as offensive an epithet as the...
View ArticleLetters: Rural theatre and poetry hit by cuts
It was good to read that Swaledale "can breathe easily again" (In praise of…, 4 April) with the reprieve of the Hudson House community facility in Reeth, but just as the national park restores its...
View ArticleLetters: Feminism and jobs for the boys
David Willetts has suggested women are to blame for the disadvantages of working-class men (Minister blames feminism over lack of jobs for working men, 2 April). He does not acknowledge that women of...
View ArticleHealth reforms: second opinion | Editorial
Andrew Lansley felt the need to go to the Commons yesterday and express confidence in his billThe need for a public vote of confidence is reliably more instructive than the ringing terms in which it is...
View ArticleAndrew Lansley's busy shift at Westminster hospital
'It takes a certain talent to unite Norman Tebbit and MC NxtGen,' health minister is toldThe coalition's health reform bill was rushed into casualty at Westminster hospital after complaining of severe...
View ArticleCountry diary: South-east Somerset
The new community magazine in our village, Horsington, says that the mothers and toddlers group has had to close because of a local shortage of toddlers. But three miles away at the supermarket...
View ArticleAndrew Lansley scrambles to save coalition's NHS reforms
Health secretary makes the rare step of making a Commons statement on his bill as it passes through parliamentThe health secretary, Andrew Lansley, is to launch a last-ditch attempt to rescue his...
View ArticleBarack Obama eyes $1bn re-election bid as Republicans ponder challengers
US president opts for aggressive start to his 2012 campaign to defeat the Republicans and return to the White HouseBarack Obama has formally launched his campaign for re-election to the White House...
View ArticleWeatherwatch: La Niña brings more flooding
Floods and mudslides hit southern Thailand last week, killing at least 35 people and affecting the lives of 2 million. The floods followed unseasonable rainstorms across the Malay Peninsula, with radar...
View ArticleHugh Muir's diary
An unpalatable naked truth confronts Dirty Des• Now he has the mainstream TV channel he's always craved, many are asking what Richard Desmond will do next. Speculation yesterday about a possible merger...
View ArticleDoctor Who: it's back – promising to be the scariest and darkest yet
Show runner Steven Moffat risks ire of fans with announcement involving fate of one of show's four main charactersNearly 50 years after Doctor Who first appeared on BBC1, the Doctor's capacity for...
View ArticleBradley Manning case: British moral authority 'at risk'
Welsh MP says UK must challenge US over treatment of soldier being detained for alleged leak of state secrets to WikiLeaksBritish diplomats will express with officials in Washington for a second time...
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