Sports Calendar

Caesar & Cicero: Balls & Mandelson

More than one election campaign is at stake in the bitter power struggle between Brown’s chief allies

• Rachel Sylvester

The anti-sex brigade are the worst

Those who want to police the behaviour of women and gays do not really have faith in their traditions

• David Aaronovitch

Small act of charity won’t change the world

A few pennies are not enough to save the welfare state

• Robert Crampton

Columnists  

The Liberal Democrats are not for sale

If there is a hung Parliament there will be no under-the-counter deals with either big party

• Nick Clegg

Heroes of the moral resistance

We forget that Germans opposed to Adolf Hitler were motivated by a powerful religious impulse

• Ben Macintyre

Bully's rant merits more than a rap on the knuckles

Alex Ferguson is the growling embodiment of today’s entitlement culture. Above all, though, he is simply boring

• Patrick Kidd

Leading articles

Follow the Money

New Labour’s financial problems are an index of its decline. As funds dwindle it becomes reliant on trade unions and the Civil Service

Unfit For Purpose (Continued)

The MoD should reconsider its stance about the 1994 Chinook crash

Heaven Only Knows Why

A Unite union telephone hotline is offering employment advice to bullied clergy

Faith  

'Good riddance to a gruelling decade'

Dr Rowan Williams says terrorism, war and the financial collapse have bedevilled the past decade in his new year message

Anger as diaries drop religious names

Prayer Book Society calls for a boycott of Letts diaries over publisher's decision to rename the Sundays before Lent

Catholic school condemned over admissions

Cardinal Vaughan School told parts of its admission procedure are 'unlawful' and have the potential for racial discrimination

Vatican defends sainthood move for wartime pope

Jewish groups have reacted angrily to the current Pope’s approval of a decree recognising the 'heroic virtues' of Pius XII

Obituaries  

Freya von Moltke

Wartime critic of Hitler who was the last survivor of the Kreisau Circle of prominent anti-Nazi Germans

Jack Brotherton-Ratcliffe

Talented businessman who co-founded the Croudace construction company which profited hugely from the postwar housing boom

Denis Lanigan

Advertising executive whose methodical, analytical mind and self-effacing management style helped J Walter Thompson to thrive

Professor Edward Schillebeeckx

Bold theologian whose writings irked Roman Catholic traditionalists in the reforming climate after the Second Vatican Council

Join the Debate  

2010

How should we name the new decade?

No Trade in Hostages

The welcome release of a British captive in Iraq cannot obscure the depravity of the crime and the futility of bargaining with kidnappers

Lack of buyers threatens UK housing recovery

New-buyer registrations have fallen, raising prospect of further falls in prices over the next year