Businesses and campaigners attack coalition's environmental record
David Cameron's dramatic promise to lead the greenest ever government has been followed by U-turns and delayed policiesBusiness leaders, investors and campaigners have delivered a thumbs down to the...
View ArticleVote blue, go green, David Cameron said. But key policies need detail
Yellow and blue coalition hoped to bring green government – runway rejection pleased protesters and the green bank is popular, but it still has a 'ready, fire, aim' approach to policyPut blue and...
View ArticleHow well has the coalition done on the environment?
From badger-culling to the abandoned privatisation of the nation's forests, the Coalition's track record on the environment is overwhelmingly negative and mainly unambitiousForests - 2/10Selling off...
View ArticleJerusalem wins high praise on Broadway
Jez Butterworth's play, set in Wiltshire woodland and rooted in rural Englishness, is likely to become a smash hit in AmericaHang out the red-cross flags, round up the morris dancers: a play so rooted...
View ArticleDoctor Who takes Tardis to US
BBC America gives big marketing push to new series with opening episode set in 1960s WashingtonHe has travelled through time, space and universes, but on Saturday the eagerly awaited new series of...
View ArticleSudoku 237 killer
Normal Sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.For a...
View ArticleSudoku 1,855 hard
Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 09068 338 228. Calls cost 60p per minute at all times. Service...
View ArticleScotland and Wales: different drums | editorial
In a devolved union, the old ties no longer bind as tightly as beforeLook back, this St George's Day, to 1999, when Scots and Welsh voters first elected their new devolved governments. The convergence...
View ArticleRoyal wedding: third tier European princeling is bitter at being NFI
Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia did not receive an invite - and he's been impertinent enough to comment• A care package of sedatives is hereby dispatched to to the Sun, which somehow contrives to dredge...
View ArticleUnthinkable? Votes for children
The old vote more and the politicians make policies for them – time to introduce proxy votes for children thenTaskforces running short on ideas regularly peddle votes at 16 as a way to spruce up...
View ArticleLetters: Drone attacks will escalate Libya war
President Obama's authorisation of the use of missile-armed drones is a further escalation of the Libya conflict that is sure to result in yet more civilian casualties (Obama sends in Predator drones...
View ArticleGood to meet you: Murray Marshall
This artist reader has a relationship with the Guardian going back to the 50s – and his first port of call is always the reviewsI live on the edge of a field in Wiltshire, so I need the Guardian to...
View ArticleThis Week: Donald Trump, David Cameron, Rastamouse
Lucy Mangan on the people in the media spotlight in the past seven daysThe new boss Donald TrumpTo the victor the spoils – and sometimes, perhaps, the other way around. After all, to the...
View ArticleThe Saturday interview: Anne Robinson on leaving Weakest Link
After 12 years and 230,000 questions, Anne Robinson is leaving Weakest Link. TV's Queen of Mean talks about knowing when it is time to go - in both work and marriageAnne Robinson may like dogs – Ellie,...
View ArticleNigella Lawson and the great burkini cover-up
Was Nigella Laswon's beach burkini a defence against the Australian sun, or a subversive political statement?Earlier this week, a British woman in Australia wore a full head-to-toe black suit, complete...
View ArticleWeatherwatch: Travels in West Africa
A brisk and matter-of-fact Victorian traveller is in a canoe, in the country that is now Gabon, trying to negotiate the waterways and the estuary. She has just met "a fine confused set of marine and...
View ArticleLetters: Hungary led the way in rights for carers
The discussion over plans to give extra votes for mothers in Hungary may have something to do with mothers' concern to have enough money to care full-time for newborn children, and to return to earning...
View ArticleLetters: Hospital shutdown
Over the bank holiday weekend hospitals, like many other places, strip down their staff to a few key personnel. Instead of regular review from teams of doctors, the medical and surgical inpatients have...
View ArticleLetters: Cycle of happiness
It is no coincidence that Denmark and Holland have happiness levels higher than ours, as Aditya Chakrabortty says (Brain food, G2, 19 April), when their levels of cycling are far greater than ours (27%...
View ArticleLetters: Castles, churches and using old buildings
Simon Jenkins' observations on the valuable role of churches in local communities (Comment, 22 April) are spot-on. In the early 1990s I was working on a church project in a deprived inner-city area....
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