The Bill's reach will be broad and deep. The national identity register will be formally abolished, signalling an end to the threat of Britons being required to carry ID cards. The police's DNA database will be restricted, too. At the moment, the pol...

The great plan at the time was for the city-centre streets to be handed over to cars at ground level. Pedestrians were to be banished to a network of walkways at first-floor level. For some years any new buildings in the city centre had to incorporat...

That's perhaps what people felt when it turned out that Sienna Miller and Jude Law, having been separated for three years, had reunited in October 2009. But – and it isn't a great surprise – now they've split up and this time, it seems, it's for good...

As the shockwaves from events in its Mediterranean backyard have reverberated, reaction in Europe has gone through a number of phases. None of it has been edifying and all of it adds up to a lost opportunity. First there was a mortifying silence: dur...

The explanation lies in smoking. Some 90 per cent of deaths from lung cancer occur in people with a long history of cigarette use. Lung cancer hardly occurred before the advent of the cigarette. In the early days most smokers were men. But as cigaret...

The elite spraying £6bn in bonuses around like so much Bolly, including £9m for the Barclays boss Bob Diamond, at a time of benefit cuts and 750,000 of the middle classes being dragged into the 40 per cent tax band, is electoral poison. So Osborne pr...

It adds weight to the suggestion that detectives were keen to quickly close down the original operation, either through fear that they would upset Rupert Murdoch's powerful News International, or because they simply did not treat the investigation se...

Send yourself a selection of cards. The ideal number is probably three – a romantic one, an arty one, and a sexy one, just to prove to yourself what you've known all along: that you have across-the-board appeal. Do remember, though, to disguise the h...

The idea of bringing a spot of royal magic to Comic Relief came from none other than Kate Middleton herself. "Kate's very much a charity person," a senior courtier revealed. "She's also a media-savvy modern girl who has seen for herself the so-called...