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The sacrifices of UK troops in Afghanistan were commemorated by guests including the Queen and Gordon Brown at the Festival of Remembrance in London. There were a number of references to events in Afghanistan during the...
Virgin Galactic expects to start taking passengers in the next few years A change in the law is needed before Scotland can be considered as a launch site for commercial space flights, the head of Virgin Galactic has said. The...
David Cameron may have backed down on the Lisbon Treaty, but in power the Conservatives will work hard to decrease the power of Brussels, says Janet Daley. Not just undemocratic but positively, deliberately anti-democratic:...
Fate of hundreds of British workers hangs on the decision of major shareholders Warren Buffett and Nelson Peltz The fate of Cadbury as a proudly independent confectioner, and the security of hundreds of jobs in the UK and...
An education system that produces record-breaking GCSE and A-level results year after year ought to instil pride both in children and parents. And yet last month the Government that has presided over this incredible rise in...
I agree with the government for sacking Professor David Nutt, who is telling people that cannabis is less dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes (" Ministers face rebellion on drug chief's sacking ", News). I have manic...
We love to hate the suburbs but for Paul Barker they are places of humanity where individuality flourishes, says Rachel Cooke I grew up on the west side of Sheffield, close to Broomhill , a place which, in 1961, John Betjeman...
Ratnabai Kale, her daughter and her sister are the latest victims of a draconian clean-up to improve the country's image abroad The three women were at a bus stop when the police rolled up. "You are begging, get in the van,"...
His new play, The Habit of Art, is ostensibly about Auden and Britten. In reality it's about Alan Bennett himself. We trace his journey of self-discovery Alan Bennett has once or twice had a go at being a little more unbuttoned...
When the disaster blockbuster 2012 opens in cinemas on Friday, film-goers will be treated to an apocalyptic epic that cost more than $200 million to make. By Philip Sherwell in New York and Hernando Garcia in Guatemala City A...
