More than 50 Labour MPs have asked to join the House of Lords after the next general election. Guardian columnist Martin Kettle explains what this tells us about Labour's political prospects and its principles.
Julie Kirkbride thought she could weather the storm over her involvement in the MP expenses scandal. But she didn't count on the resolve of constituent Louise Marnell of the Julie Must Go campaign.
Guardian reporter Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has seen chaos and civil war in his native Iraq, in Afghanistan and elsewhere. But he has never seen anything like what he experienced in Mogadishu.
When Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee and co-author David Walker wrote their book, Unjust Rewards: Greed and Inequality in Britain Today, in 2008, they could not have imagined the financial implosion and the political grasping that have led to so much public anger. They update their story of greed in denial
At the Hay festival, the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, tells Madeleine Bunting that people are turning back to religion as the economy crashes and secular society fails to come up with adequate solutions.
