Pizzas galore!

Faster growth is the only way out of this hole

Cuts and higher taxes are not the answer. It is a moral imperative that people are masters of their own financial destiny

• Maurice Saatchi

Get prisoners off drugs? Don’t be so silly

By pushing methadone to inmates, the State has become the dealer-in-chief in Britain’s jails

• Melanie Reid

A wallet, a train – and some scissors

I left my card wallet at a station. Little did I know what was in store

• Matthew Parris

Columnists  

Where the Rosetta belongs can’t be set in stone

Great cultural artefacts and great intellectual ideas are no respecters of national boundaries. Everyone must share them

• Ben Macintyre

Condemned out of hand by the Inland Revenue

If I were the Queen, I’d take my initials off HM Revenue and Customs in disgust

• Libby Purves

Act smart: don’t burn quangos, reform them

Yes, the Government should cut right back on unelected bodies, but mandarins and ministers are to blame for the mess

• Matthew Flinders

Leading articles

Out bid

Warier shoppers are turning eBay from an auction site into an online retailer

Eyes on the prize

How President Obama could retrospectively earn his Nobel award for peace

Reality postponed

The Chancellor of the Exchequer fell below the level of the occasion yesterday. There was no serious plan to reduce the budget deficit

Faith  

Gay friend of Archbishop feels 'betrayed'

Rev Colin Coward says families and networks of friends are deserting the Anglican Church because of its hostility to gay people

Sarkozy: Muslims must be discreet about faith

French President voices sympathy for Swiss voters over ban on minarets amid heated debate on cultural identity

Christian hoteliers 'abused Muslim guest'

Woman who wore hijab was subjected to verbal assault and told that her form of dress represented bondage, court hears

Bishop 'to resign' over Irish sex abuse report

Bishop Donal Murray has asked for people's prayers and is expected to offer his resignation to Pope Benedict

Obituaries  

Rear-Admiral ‘Sam’ Salt

Submarine warfare specialist who commanded the destroyer Sheffield, the first British warship to be sunk in the Falklands conflict

Richard Mayne

Scholar, writer, sailor — and francophile pioneer of Britain’s postwar economic and political integration with Europe

Claude Harrison

Painter of dream-like images of figures set against lakes and mountains and often endowed with menacing overtones

Peter Diggory

Gynaecologist who helped steer the 1967 Abortion Act through Parliament and founded some of the UK's first contraceptive clinics

Join the Debate  

Corus blames job cuts on lack of support

Britain’s biggest steelmaker tore into the Government as it said it was mothballing most of a site, cutting 1,700 jobs

'Police not spending any more time on the beat'

Government’s adviser on red tape criticised policing practises as the Home Secretary announced measures to save £545m

Strong City is not just good for Britain

Our financial institutions are New York’s only rival. Europe must not be allowed to hamper them

Co-ed schools divide classes by sex

Teachers find that both boys and girls concentrate better in lessons without the distraction of the opposite sex