Libya: 'mission creep' claims as UK sends in military advisers
Rebels fighting Gaddafi regime to get military advice on the ground as MPs warn of 'mission creep'The British government has come under intense pressure over its response to the crisis in Libya as...
View ArticleRoyal wedding: two protests planned as police consider pre-emptive arrests
Scotland Yard to mount one of its biggest ever operations on the day of the wedding amid fears of disruption by activistsPolice across the country could make pre-emptive strikes in the coming days to...
View ArticleFormula One subject of takeover talks by Rupert Murdoch and Carlos Slim
News Corp in talks to make joint bid for one of few sports where it has no foothold with Mexican magnate Carlos SlimRupert Murdoch's News Corp is in talks with Carlos Slim, said to be the world's...
View ArticleF1 executive Bernie Ecclestone will keep Rupert Murdoch guessing to the end
A move to Sky is by no means certain, but TV rights negotiator Bernie Ecclestone is adept at the unexpectedBernie Ecclestone has long been adept at the unexpected in business; his decision to sell the...
View ArticleGordon Brown calls for reform of global bodies including IMF and UN
Former PM sidesteps David Cameron's criticisms and dodges speculation about his ambition to lead the IMFGordon Brown has called for the wholesale reform of the world's most powerful bodies, including...
View ArticleIMF: In the running
Since the 1940s, an American has run the World Bank and a European has been managing director of the International Monetary FundSince the 1940s, an American has run the World Bank and a European has...
View ArticleGaza: Hamas arrests two after abduction and murder
Hamas said it has arrested two militants suspected of killing an Italian, Vittorio ArrigoniHamas said it has arrested two militants suspected of killing an Italian last week, in a shootout in Gaza in...
View ArticleThor – review
It's overlong and all over the place but there's something weirdly charming about Kenneth Branagh's superhero epicBy the glittering gates of Asgard, Kenneth Branagh's big-screen Thor is a rum old...
View ArticleHIV study claims one in eight children resistant to drugs
First major study of young people with HIV questions the suitability of anti-retroviral drugs for young sufferersOne in eight children born with HIV becomes resistant to the three main classes of drugs...
View ArticleNHS chiefs predict ward closures and job cuts
King's Fund report finds NHS finance directors pessimistic about health service reforms as waiting times riseNHS finance directors predict ward closures, job cuts and other reductions as they struggle...
View ArticleLetters: School music coda
Last Saturday marked one of the saddest days of my professional life. The evening concert that took place at the Bedford Corn Exchange was the swan song for one of Britain's finest and oldest youth...
View ArticleLetters: Profiting from university cuts
I have to strongly disagree with David Willetts's claim that more competition from private universities will create a "more open, dynamic and diverse higher education system" (Universities fear private...
View ArticleLetters: Democratic abuses in Azerbaijan
To mark the anniversary of the imprisonment of award-winning investigative journalist Eynulla Fatullayev and to express solidarity with the scores of Azerbaijani citizens arrested, attacked and...
View ArticleLetters: Mutual interest in promoting co-operatives
John Harris seems beguiled by the Tories' rhetorical support for co-operatives and by Jesse Norman MP, the chair of Conservative Co-operatives (From John Lewis to workers' co-ops: these Tories love...
View ArticleLetters: Tate should end its relationship with BP
In the year since its catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP has massively ramped up its investment in controversial tar sands extraction in Canada, has been shown to have been a key backer...
View ArticleLetters: Potluck politics
It is significant that Polly Toynbee (A no to AV hurts Clegg. But a yes whacks the organ grinder, 19 April) now majors not on rational arguments for a flawed system, but on the likability of the two...
View ArticleCorrections and clarifications
• A report on the latest attack on Andres Serrano's controversial work Piss Christ inadvertently referred to the late US Republican Senator Jesse Helms as Jesse James (Hit with a hammer and slashed...
View ArticleLibya: Mission creak | Editorial
With boots already on the ground, Nato's military involvement in the civil war in Libya is deepening step by stepThe 20 British and French military advisers being sent to help the rebels in Benghazi do...
View ArticleUS fiscal policy: In place of prudence | Editorial
It is not about the right deficit for this year or next. It is about the need for a semblance of balance over the decades aheadIn Britain, deficit denial is a charge the right lays at the door of the...
View ArticleIn praise of … the M1 | Editorial
The spine of England and a seemingly unavoidable element of any road journey between north and southThe M1 is one of those bits of Britain that everyone knows but nobody likes. Details of its route...
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