Fighting Fit

Better services without reform?

This is a time for creative innovation, not rigid belief that statistics can show us answers to our problems

• Daniel Finkelstein

And now for something far more important

The raid on Damian Green's office was high farce, not constitutional disaster. MPs should address weightier matters

• Alice Miles

The police are being handcuffed by rules

Strict procedures and guidelines leave officers unable to do their jobs - just like social workers

• Magnus Linklater

It takes two to have a one-night stand (and they can both enjoy it)

Britain is top of the league when it comes to casual sex. Let's celebrate, we're finally casting off our prudish hypocrisy

• Matthew Syed

Speak up

If the Speaker's statement on Damian Green distracts from the Queen's Speech, that is the fault of a tired Government which has neglected liberty

Financial meltdown hits the Premier League

Fans are tightening their belts and thinking twice about attending matches, so clubs must come up with new strategies

Britain's grand Olympic plan goes up in smoke

Several sports see funding cut as Government reneges on pledge

A work of art or a work of faith?

Catholics demand Renaissance masterpiece relocated to a church

V. P. Singh

Indian Prime Minister who created a social revolution by opening job opportunities to lower caste groups

Harold Brown

Film archivist who pioneered the conservation of fragile treasures from the early days of the cinema