The climax of three days of celebration served to demonstrate why, 60 years on, she remains so popular

This Government has done more tinkering than most. It seems to have decided to do thinking after, and tinkering first

Private sector workers don't understand why it's hard to sack someone in the public sector

In Iran, verse moves crowds to tears, as Christina Patterson discovers.

People who aren't football fans don't get to weep, or hug, in public, or have a kind of communion, with beer

On Thursday, an 86-year-old woman met the Welsh rugby team. After that, she went to a community festival, where she saw displays by the local mountain rescue team, the Forestry Commission and Merthyr Tydfil scouts.

Is it fair some people can have as many children as they like, live wherever they like, and have their rent paid by people who can’t afford to do either?

He called himself "Mr Hot Sex". He lived in a ménage à trois. He lived, according to a woman with long grey hair and a very big smile, in the biggest immigrant community in the world. He lived, she said, in a city of a million people. He lived 2,000 years ago, in Rome.

Anders Breivik hates Muslims, multiculturalism and feminism, but really what he hates is himself

Andy Warhol would have been amused. Andy Warhol, who hardly ever smiled, at least in photos, surely would have when he heard about a woman called Samantha Brick. He might even have laughed when he heard the tale of how a woman almost no one had heard of became famous, not just for 15 minutes, but for nearly two weeks. And not for anything she'd done, or even for being beautiful, but for thinking she was beautiful when quite a lot of people thought she wasn't.