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Letters: Red tape and the green agenda
The launch of the government's "red tape" consultation isn't really a consultation at all (Anger as green laws are labelled red tape, 18 April). It's a sort of agent provocateur exercise where the...
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Teachers heckle schools minister over pension proposals
Union delegates jeer as Nick Gibb defends coalition plans, while poll shows scale of opposition to education changesThe schools minister, Nick Gibb, was heckled and jeered by teachers as he attempted...
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NHS plans: In the waiting room | Editorial
Getting back on track and staying there is going to be incredibly difficult in the absence of any strategyLikened by its rightwing detractors to a national religion, the debate over the NHS is far from...
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Corrections and clarifications
• An article on macular disease referred to the affected spot on the retina throughout as the macular. To clarify: the macula is the name of the small area on the retina that contains the greatest...
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Letters: A royal April fool that's gone too far
What has become of the Guardian's once energetic republicanism, when all you can muster on your front page (Report, 20 April) on the impending creation of a college girlfriend as a "duchess" and of a...
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Letter: Coalition to save Bristol Bay, Alaska
We write on the day of Anglo American's shareholder meeting to register deep concerns about the proposed open-cast, gold and copper Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska. We are unusual bedfellows,...
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Letters: Vanunu still not free
Today marks seven years since Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear whistleblower, was released from Ashkelon prison to face the assembled world's media, having served his full sentence of 18 years...
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Letter: Drama bows to cuts
I have a similar story to that of James Dickenson (School music coda, Letters, 20 April). On Friday, 15 April, Leicestershire axed its drama and dance advisory service. For 40 years it had been a...
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Letters: Surreal Lowry
Jonathan Jones would like to see a painting by LS Lowry hung beside one by Giorgio di Chirico (The original grime artist, 19 April). When I was keeper of paintings at Manchester City Art Gallery in the...
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Letter: The truth about the end of empire
Madeleine Bunting over-simplifies and distorts Britain's predominantly successful, peaceful and honourable decolonisation record (The endgames of our empire never quite played out – just look at...
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TB screening misses 70% of latent cases
UK should radically change tuberculosis screening policy and include arrivals from Indian subcontinent, experts sayThe UK should radically change its tuberculosis screening policy and include arrivals...
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Syria: States of emergency | Editorial
It is tempting to see regional opportunities in Syria's turmoil – but no Arab spring has yet been nurtured by foreign interventionWeeks of demonstrations in Syria reached a turning point this week. In...
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In praise of … a Lords moratorium | Editorial
Many new peers cannot do their job properly if they are turned into ermine-clad battery hensPosh club declares itself closed to new members shock! In other circumstances, it would be right to ask why...
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Country Diary: Loch Bunachton
As with most sites I visit, the origin of the name intrigues me and I wonder at the word, Bunachton. It is on the Ordnance Survey map and would have been derived from the original Gaelic name that has...
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Weatherwatch: How do you measure sunshine?
How many minutes of sunshine did we have today? Nowadays meteorological stations measure the amount of time that the Sun shines with an electronic sensor, but until very recently a Campbell-Stokes...
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Hugh Muir's Diary
We are all in this together. Even L Ron Hubbard might soon be feeling the pinch• With the support of Tom Cruise and John Travolta, the Church of Scientology can be satisfied that its writ runs large in...
View ArticleNick Hayes on the UK sending military advisers to Libya - cartoon
The government has come under intense pressure over its plans to send a team of military officers to advise rebelsNick Hayes
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Grete Waitz obituary
The long-distance runner who inspired women into the sportGrete Waitz, who has died aged 57, achieved an iconic status in women's distance running, winning the World Marathon title in 1983, the New...
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British servicewoman dies after Afghan bomb blast
Captain Lisa Head, 29, fatally injured clearing IEDs in Helmand, becomes second British servicewoman killedA woman serving with the British army's bomb disposal team in Afghanistan has died of injuries...
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David Cameron vows to fight proposed EU budget rise
Prime minister will have unanimous backing of Commons, plus the French and DutchDavid Cameron and George Osborne set themselves on a collision course with European Union officials after they flatly...
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