Andy Bond: 'the retail recession is ahead of us'
Former Asda boss predicts further high street gloom as HMV issues third profit warning in as many monthsFormer Asda boss Andy Bond has predicted two years of misery for high street retailers as the...
View ArticleAfter Gbagbo, what next for Ivory Coast? | Adekeye Adebajo
Both sides are accused of atrocities. Now Ouattara must heal Ivory Coast's divisions – with international supportThe Republican forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognised winner...
View ArticleIan Tomlinson inquest: policeman claims push was 'proportionate'
PC Simon Harwood, who pushed Ian Tomlinson, says he posed no threat but was obstructing the police lineA policeman has told an inquest Ian Tomlinson posed no threat when he struck him with a baton and...
View ArticleCameron's £950m gamble to win Pakistani minds
Prime minister reveals willingness to work with spy agencies but urges Pakistan to 'make its wealthy pay more tax' David Cameron has taken a calculated and expensive diplomatic gamble by agreeing to...
View ArticleWhite male culture dominates police, says equality review
Neyroud report says greater diversity 'would transform attitudes' and urges qualifications to boost quality of recruitsThe police remain dominated by an "overwhelming white male culture" that still...
View ArticlePhone hacking: Police search at NoW office sends signal that inquiry has...
Until now, the officers involved in 'Operation Weeting' have been reviewing evidence seized in the original 2006 investigationOn the rare occasions that police officers appear in newspaper offices,...
View ArticleSocial immobility is built into the way Britain lives and learns | Simon Jenkins
No industry, no jobs, no incentive – the idea that Nick Clegg's internships will change the towns I visited last week is laughableIf David Cameron and Nick Clegg are really worried about social...
View ArticleClegg admits parental job boost amid crackdown on unpaid internships
Deputy prime minister owns up to securing his first internship through his father's influence in a Finnish bankNick Clegg was forced to admit it was "wrong" that his own career had been boosted by...
View ArticleUniversities lack incentive to charge lower tuition fees
High demand for places means universities are not under any competitive pressure to keep their student fees downOf the universities that have shown their hand, two-thirds have gone for the highest...
View ArticleIvory Coast: final assault to unseat Gbagbo amid humanitarian crisis
Thirsty and hungry of Abidjan fear leaving their homes as food and water crisis growsA macabre welcome greeted new arrivals to Abidjan on Tuesday morning: a dozen corpses lined up on a roadside by a...
View ArticlePolice arrest salvagers for taking 47p in scrap from recycling centre
Pair of salvagers who took dumped items claim police told them the arrest operation had cost £20,000A police operation involving eight officers and a helicopter was launched after two "salvagers" were...
View ArticleLibyan rebels deny offering Lockerbie compensation
Lawyer claims revolutionary leadership apologised over PanAm bombing and IRA attacks, while rebels accuse Nato of abandoning people to their deathsLibya's revolutionary administration has denied a...
View ArticleKeir Starmer, Britain's fairest man, tiptoes round phone-hacking scandal |...
The director of public prosecutions faced the Commons home affairs committee and managed to tell them very littleWhen the two Murdoch newshounds were arrested over the phone-hacking scandal, MPs on the...
View ArticleUS budget: The shrinking of our society | Michael Tomasky
Without presenting an alternative of fair taxes, Democrats are playing into the Tea Party agendaBack during the Vietnam war an antiwar senator is reputed to have said that the United States should just...
View ArticleDoctors urged to take climate leadership role
Military and medical experts call on doctors to use their position of trust in society to build support for action on climate changeDoctors must take a leading role in highlighting the dangers of...
View ArticleSpacewatch: Spy satellite disappears
The International Space Station is currently observable at unsocial pre-dawn hours but will reappear in our evenings from 19 April, 10 days before the scheduled launch date of the shuttle Endeavour....
View ArticleSteve bell on David Cameron and Pakistan - cartoon
David Cameron has taken a diplomatic gamble by agreeing to put his faith in the Pakistani security servicesSteve Bell
View ArticleGoldstone report: the unanswered questions | Editorial
Indiscriminate warfare, as opposed to deliberate killing, was undoubtedly Israel's state policyIt is difficult, in this digital world of instant claim and rebuttal, to say that you were wrong. But...
View ArticleIn praise of… academic Wikipedians | Editorial
Fresh means must be found to lure big brains into the world's biggest seminarNet evangelists are most persuasive when they talk of tearing down barriers to knowledge – of a world where a farmhand can...
View ArticleIvory Coast: Laurent Gbagbo negotiating surrender
UN says it has received calls from Gbagbo's top generals, as president shelters in basement of his palaceIvory Coast's president, Laurent Gbagbo, has been holed up in a bunker with his family and a...
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