Older people are facing serious debt problems which are leading to twice as many marriages breaking down, new research published today reveals.

The week I saw how low the right will stoop

Inside Westminster

Cabbies claim drivers would be endangered by passengers travelling late at night who thought they were being driven deliberately slowly in order to inflate fares

Elinor Ostrom, who died on 12 June aged 78, was an Indiana University professor of political science who became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics. Ostrom shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for economics with Oliver Williamson from the University of California, Berkeley. They were honoured for analysing the rules by which people exercise authority in companies and economic systems.

Randy Newman always was old before his time, but on the evidence of this memorable evening, the 68-year-old American finally seems to have reached the age he was born to be.

The welfare of foxes

Sir: On reading Liz Hunt's article (20 January) on the Office of Health Economics report on premature birth costs, I couldn't help but reflect on how, in a society immersed in market values, so very few seem willing to accept the principle of cost in any form.