Letters: Women who lost out in pension reform
Jackie Ashley points out that the coalition agreement states women's pension age will not begin to rise to 66 until 2020, ie after men's and women's pension ages were due to equalise at 65 (This new...
View ArticleSocial mobilty: hopes and dreams | Editorial
Nick Clegg's plan to make internships transparent is all very well, but for the government's real priorities, follow the moneyIt is easier to identify practices that block social mobility than policies...
View ArticleLetters: Vanished landscape
Surely Jane Austen would recognise a remarkable change to the landscape of the South Downs since her time (Report, 1 April)? Natural history writers such as WH Hudson would be devastated by it. Grazing...
View ArticleLetters: Conflicting data on sports participation
There is something very odd about the statistics on sports participation (Olympics minister admits 2012 legacy targets will be scrapped, 29 March). You quote the Active People survey but do not mention...
View ArticleLetters: A segregated society
Peter Preston spoiled his article (The limits of peace politics, 4 April) by referring to the "RUC" (Corrections, 5 April). The reality is that 10 years of positive discrimination have transformed the...
View ArticleLetters: No definitive answers in the nuclear debate
George Monbiot is, at best, confused about debates over nuclear power (The unpalatable truth is that the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all, 5 April). The real issue is not which individual "foremost...
View ArticleCorrections and clarifications
• Among photographs illustrating a film article on war documentaries – A grunt's eye view, 5 April, page 19, G2 – we meant to publish a still from The Battle of Midway, John Ford's 1942...
View ArticleLetters: New Labour elite still don't get it
Seizing on Alastair Bonnett's arguments about the power of nostalgia to launch an appeal for "conservative socialism" or "Blue Labour" demonstrates yet again that the New Labour elite still haven't got...
View ArticleLetters: Militant atheism
Your coverage of the interview with Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Doulton was deeply disturbing (RAF stretched to the limit, air chief warns, 4 April). Try reading it while replacing "the RAF" with...
View ArticleCountry diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
Rain has darkened the earth of arable fields sown with barley and refreshed pastures occupied by ewes with lambs or suckler cows just turned out of winter quarters with their calves. Primroses deck the...
View ArticleHugh Muir's Diary
My cup runneth over, says Jeremy the culture secretary. But it is my cup. Get your own• In an ideal Con-Dem world it would be every man for himself, but circumstances dictate that we are all in this...
View ArticleWastwater - review
Royal Court, LondonAlthough the title of Simon Stephens's new play refers to the deepest lake in Britain, it is set on the fringes of Heathrow; and part of its point is that the airport environs, like...
View ArticleJapanese nuclear engineers plug Fukushima leak
Workers stem flow of radioactive water into sea using mixture of sawdust, newspaper, concrete and a type of liquid glassEngineers battling to contain the crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant...
View ArticlePress Awards 2011: Guardian wins Newspaper of the Year
Editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger singled out coverage of the diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaksThe Guardian's groundbreaking journalism and innovation were recognised at the Press Awards where it...
View ArticlePhone hacking: two News of the World journalists arrested
Police search homes of paper's chief reporter and former news editor as CPS and police row over failure of first inquiryScotland Yard's inquiry into allegations of phone hacking by the News of the...
View ArticleEd Balls clashes with Treasury over 'black Wednesday' for families
Shadow chancellor says today's tax and benefit changes will hurt working families, but Treasury insists only richest will loseWorking families face losing up to £1,560 a year from Wednesday under the...
View ArticleHip patients in pain now wait longer to get surgery
118 surgeons said hip and knee surgery had been regarded as a procedure of low priorityPatients waiting for hip and knee surgery are left in pain for longer after being denied the surgery to save...
View ArticleEnglish words fail to take root in Polish vernacular
Polish has resisted the influx of English words brought back by migrant workers, but swearwords are proving resilientThe constant shuttling of hundreds of thousands of mostly young Polish workers...
View ArticleNHS reforms: senior ministers go on the road to listen to workers' concerns
• Ministers will talk to staff at a hospital in home counties• Nick Clegg rules out any moves towards privatising NHSDavid Cameron and Nick Clegg are joining forces with Andrew Lansley to launch the...
View ArticleChild maintenance changes will penalise single mothers, warn charities
Charities urge Theresa May to rethink child maintenance proposals in a letter saying women will suffer most from new chargesRead the letter hereChanges to the child maintenance system will have an...
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