In some parts of the world, anxieties of this kind tend to push people into reaction: to cling to nationalism or racism, and to search for scapegoats. In the Western world insecurity seems to be having a rather more benign effect, promoting an intens...

The first date marked the start of Deng's illustrious revolutionary career; the second marked his official retirement that afternoon from the last of his political positions. As for Eternity, sinologists are now pencilling it into their diaries for s...

In the immediate post-war years, Britain helped to establish the ECHR, and the decision to join was one of the first actions of Churchill's 1951 government. The advantages then seemed obvious. To rebuild the defences of civilisation against barbarism...

Clause IV does not mention nationalisation, but stresses the centrality of common ownership - which includes co-operatives and mutuals, such as building societies - as well as democratic control. Shaun Spiers, MEP London SE18

However, it may all serve to motivate those aspiring to the top. Human nature seems to find the small probability of a huge reward irresistible. There are many reasons for arguing that huge salaries (and huge lottery and pools wins) should be spread ...

It is sad that avarice seems to be rapidly replacing job satisfaction as the motivation of top management in this country. J D A Miller Stockport, Cheshire

In response, we received nearly 100 letters. A large majority of these said we were wrong to give the story such prominence. Below, we publish a selection. IN your article on Cherie Blair you say barristers must take cases on the "cab-rank" principle...

In response, we received nearly 100 letters. A large majority of these said we were wrong to give the story such prominence. Below, we publish a selection. IS Cherie Blair's work really the most important item of last Sunday's news? I found your fron...

In response, we received nearly 100 letters. A large majority of these said we were wrong to give the story such prominence. Below, we publish a selection. YOU criticised Cherie Blair because as a barrister she prosecuted poll tax defaulters, implyin...

One cannot (and should not) erect emotional boundaries so that only certain types of suffering stimulate our compassion. There must be room for resistance to all aspects of abuse on this planet. Concentrating at a particular time on a subject which w...

Scotland is over-represented in Westminster by a third, and disproportionately benefits from regional funding by over 20 per cent, which helps support the highest salary levels outside the South-east. Combined with modestly priced housing it results ...

In response, we received nearly 100 letters. A large majority of these said we were wrong to give the story such prominence. Below, we publish a selection. CHERIE Blair's statement that she was "simply anxious" that a penniless poll tax defaulter sho...

972. By the 1970s West Germany had more dwellings available per 1,000 people. When house prices were rising in the UK at 6 per cent a year, largely because of inadequate supply, they were falling in Germany. As a result, interest payments on househol...

Presumably this is the anecdotal evidence which she believes "needs now to be treated with great caution". With emotion and without exception their stories were all the same - piles of unburied dead, wraith-like, skeletal figures who were just living...

Frank Key London E4

John Casey, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge What we're concerned about here is the politics of greed, the revolving door in which ministers take decisions in favour of privatised companies one day, and then go and take the cream from ...

People's Par ty has launched a campaign to guarantee bald people top state posts ... And, finally, Graham Gregory, 42, a building equipment supplier from Stowmarket, claimed he lost his litigation over an accountancy dispute because the loud snoring ...

The dangers of overwork and the effects on health, marriage and family life have been widely debated. In the Sunday Review today, Annabel Ferriman reveals the latest thinking on what has been called "the disease of the Nineties". As summarised by Cha...

Lord Taylor was talking about the process of the law, but Private Clegg, and presumably the Law Society too, was thinking of something above that process. Aristotle would have known what he meant. He defined epiekeia as a superior justice which looke...

I entered into the project enthusiastically. Almshouses have always seemed to me the ideal arrangement for old age - almshouses, or a room in college at Cambridge, which is a kind of luxury almshouse arrangement - because they offer elements of both ...

How different we are now, with our out-of-town shopping centres and theme parks and racing, and football matches where you have to be very careful what you say to the players. There are workbenches and drills to be utilised, flat packs to be assemble...

On the surface, it is their achievement alone to turn Mr Major into a more or less fully-paid-up Europhobe. Mr William Cash has played hardly any part in recent stirring events. Mr Michael Spicer has kept quiet. Mr John Biffen has retired into elder ...

TODAY is the feast day of Saint Gilda the Wise, sixth-century abbot in the Clyde valley, who wandered through Britain and wrote De excidio Brittaniae, a pitiful tale of the miseries and ruin of the people, which has been described as "querulous". Kin...