Film 100

How did she get the insurance?

Anne Darwin’s masterstroke was not faking a death but getting a scam-ridden industry to pay out

• Antonia Senior

Protesting against Charles? Bonkers

Surely the good people of Quebec must have something better to do

• Hugo Rifkind

One last chance to save our Afghan mission

If Obama fails to lay down the conditions essential for success, it will be impossible to tell voters that this war is justified

• Nick Clegg

Columnists  

It will be tough on a £200k bonus

Bankers and MoD civil servants must learn what MPs have learnt – how to take their punishment

• Frank Skinner

Will a degree help an anxious patient?

Focusing on more abstract and theoretical issues might diminish the commitment to basic nursing

• Raymond Tallis

We need a moratorium on memorials

Plaques here, plaques there. Plaque treatment is required

• Stephen Anderton

Leading articles

Doctors and nurses

The demand that all nurses have degrees will not increase the status of the profession very much. But it will worsen the shortage of nurses

Crack the whip

A stronger Parliament would be a welcome outcome of the expenses saga

Tainted funds

European taxpayer handouts to political parties, including the BNP, are an outrage

Faith  

Atheist Hirst to display paintings in church

The controversial artist will emulate the old masters by painting two 20ft-high religious works for display in St Paul’s

Reaction from UK mosques

Worshippers at one of the UK's biggest mosques said Muslims who serve are complicit in killing their ‘brothers and sisters’

Air turns blue round TV's new comic vicar

Strong language will feature in the BBC's after-the-watershed satire on the tribulations of an inner-city parish

Priests to perform second album in Liverpool

Trio will perform from their new album, Harmony, after a year of combining parish duties with global fame and fortune

Obituaries  

General Sir Patrick Howard-Dobson

Wartime tank troop commander who went on to fill a series of senior posts with notable success

Lawrence Slobodkin

American ecologist who was in the vanguard of transforming the discipline from a merely descriptive science to a quantitative one

Professor Dan Lewis

Influential botanist, scholar and teacher who made notable strides in elucidating fundamental aspects of plant breeding

Francisco Ayala

Eminent Spanish writer who returned from exile to be fêted by king and country

Join the Debate  

Is degree in bedside manner needed?

Two experts discuss whether patients benefit from nurses having a degree, after two unions have questioned their value

Safety alert on Maclaren pushchairs

Manufacturer offers safety modification on 1m US buggies after 12 children lose fingertips - but no action in UK

Race to build ten nuclear stations in Britain

Government announces £50 billion programme to improve energy security but is accused of reacting too late to avoid crisis