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Phone hacking: Questions for News International
It made a statement last week – since when a further arrest has been made – but what else should the newspaper group reveal?1. News International insists it is cooperating with police and trying to...
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Britain bans export to US of execution drugs
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to prohibit American orders of three drugs used in lethal injectionsBritain is to ban the export to the US of three pharmaceutical drugs that are used to...
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Artificial pancreas ready for diabetics to try at home, say research scientists
A patch that monitors glucose levels continuously has worked in a small trial. Now scientists want more diabetics to try it outTrials of an artificial pancreas that can monitor the blood sugar levels...
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Third arrest over phone hacking at News of the World
James Weatherup – whose name had not been connected with the scandal – arrested as part of Scotland Yard investigationThe police investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World took a new...
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Immigration: Living with diversity
There is a history of deploying immigration as an issue when the Tories need to restore the confidence of core supportersIt was the first speech of the local election campaign, so perhaps it is not...
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RAF Typhoon jets draw MPs' flak over £20bn price tag
Typhoon fast jets cost £126m each and have too few spare parts, finds Commons reportDespite years of delays and soaring costs, Typhoon fighters – the RAF's latest fast jet – are suffering from a...
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Policing demonstrations: Grounds for protest | Editorial
It is increasingly clear that something had gone badly awry with the Met's handling of protests in 2009No one would dispute that policing a charged protest is a difficult task, requiring delicate...
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Letters: Progress does not back privatisation
Seumas Milne ('Continuity Labour' is the real roadblock to renewal, 14 April) claims that Progress promotes "triangulation, cuts and privatisation". I would like to know the basis on which he makes...
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London's transport system ready for 'extreme' demands of 2012 Olympics
Busiest day of Olympic Games will see 700,000 ticketholders travelling to 11 venues around the capitalKeeping the capital moving during the 2012 Olympics will be an enormous challenge for the...
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Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy: no let-up in Libya until Gaddafi departs
US president reverses previously cautious approach to Libyan conflict and signs America up to more muscular interventionPresident Obama today signals the return of America to the forefront of the...
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Letters: Straw poll on the alternative vote
What an extraordinary article by Vernon Bogdanor (The weapon of choice, 12 April). He refers to a simulation of the 2010 election but with AV as the voting system. Sorry, Vernon, it don't mean nothing....
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Corrections and clarifications
• The text of an article reported Barack Obama as proposing $4tn in spending cuts. While this is the sum by which he hopes over time to cut the accumulated US federal debt – currently standing at...
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Letters: A better way to save cattle – and badgers
As a longtime campaigner on animal protection issues, I was horrified to read of ministers' plans for a legalised free-for-all shooting of badgers in our countryside (Shooting badgers to be legal under...
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Letters: Nuclear risks
An estimate of the cost of compensation to Fukushima victims of $133bn has been reported by Reuters (Japan raises nuclear alert, 12 April). The UK has nuclear sites closer to major cities than...
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Letters: Communication breakdown over health service reforms
The government is trying to do the impossible. It wants to launch a major reorganisation of the NHS, but seems not to realise that most of the professional and public opposition to this stems not from...
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Letters: Frog prince
The discussions about "social mobility" (Letters, 11 April) seem to accept that it is a "good thing", provided there is some regulation of nepotism. This is like a discussion of the decor in the...
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Skiwatch
Winter has returned to the Alps with a vengeance, with up to 70cm of fresh snow in Austria, 30cm in Switzerland and more on the way in France and Italy.Austrian resorts are now looking good for the...
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In praise of … David Runciman | Editorial
This political scientist's insights about the real world often take the form of a paradox which baffles before it enlightensThe political science is just as dismal as the economic one. Its models,...
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Country diary: Northumberland
Daffodils are blooming around the village and in my garden, and bluebells carpet the borders among the herbaceous plants. Early in the mornings I can hear the birds singing. Today I was pleased to see...
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Esther Addley's Diary
It's the bunting season. But Boris isn't a good sport✒It's bunting season. Hurrah! London Mayor Boris Johnson so adores a trestle table that he appointed his own "street party ambassador", bubbly Babs...
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