Stephen Fry opened the Bafta ceremony by welcoming the performers and "assorted media scum". No more veneer of civility
Read full article...Some say he's the future of British politics, others think he is nuts. Meet Douglas Carswell: radical Conservative MP, outspoken blogger and self-confessed scourge of big government
The greatest defender of our freedoms turns out not to be Liberty's Shami Chakrabarti but the footballer and Nietzchean, Joey Barton
The slogan of Ken Livingstone's mayoral campaign is: "Do you want a Mayor who makes you laugh or one who cuts your fares?" Naturally, it presupposes an answer
The riots were just a warning, says Camila Batmanghelidjh. She tells Sarah Sands our capital's gang culture is hardening and about her crusade to save vulnerable children from its grip
The Political Interview: Sarah Sands talks to Tessa Jowell, Ken Livingstone's campaign manager, about her marriage split, a £200,000 award from News International after they hacked her phone and why she isn't running for Mayor... yet.
This is not an easy time to defend religion. Whenever I have done so, the atheist Pac attacks are fast and furious. It seems brave, therefore, of Alain de Botton to come forward from the atheist side to look for the saving graces of faiths
The difficulty for a behind-the-scenes biographer of the Obamas is that the couple are socially wary and the President is as mysterious as the Mona Lisa. Worse, he is a stunning writer
Capitalism suddenly has more denominations than the Church. There is "responsible" and "modern managerial" capitalism, "crony" or "vulture" capitalism
Young women embarking on careers have a choice of two new books, of differing philosophies. The first is Gaby Hinsliff's Half a Wife, which examines the familiar tug between work and a happy home. The second is Mrs Moneypenny's Careers Advice for Ambitious Women. Hinsliff's work is about quality of life. Mrs Moneypenny's has a more Thatcherite tunnel vision. It does not work around life's obstacles but boots them out of the way.
Half a Wife seeks collaborative and societal solutions. It takes an Oxfordshire village to raise a child, as Hillary Clinton might have said.
The King James Bible has many admirers including the late Christopher Hitchens. He praised its "common stock of references and allusions rivalled only by Shakespeare". He used as an example a British officer at Dunkirk, faced with annihilation or surrender, who cabled home three words: "But if not..."
Musing on how the Labour Party might win the next election, the former Blairite minister Tessa Jowell cited to me the example of Bicester village as politically and economically significant
Part of Ed Miliband's distaste for Jeremy Clarkson, whom he called "disgraceful and disgusting", was surely a gleeful awareness of Clarkson's mate, the Prime Minister
Public sector workers must take responsibility for their share of the economy, not sabotage it by striking
Sarah Sands found the Maldives out of season to be as captivating as ever, with its blend of luxury hotels and natural wonders
Fidgeting and beaming on the BBC green room sofa on Sunday morning was a man who represents the views of 40 per cent of the British people and whose party plausibly claims it can leave the Liberal Democrats for dead at the next election
A cause needs champions, and Stephen Fry and Richard Dawkins make an irresistible argument for the rationalism of atheism over the hocus pocus of religion
The public cannot quite make up their minds about the Tory MP Louise Mensch
A shortlist of people we can all admire would have to include the boss of the social-care charity Turning Point, Lord Adebowale
The idiosyncratic nature of the mayoral race is apparent from the books published by the two major candidates
We sent one lucky family off to experience inspirational Iceland. Read the full story here.
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