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Robert Burns museum opens at his former home in Ayrshire
National Trust opens Robert Burns museum after two-year delay, hoping people won't be tim'rous about comingA major new museum celebrating the birthplace, life and poetry of Robert Burns has opened at...
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Great demos of my life, from Franco to Vietnam | Duncan Campbell
The sight of students joyfully protesting will have sent many older Guardian readers down memory laneOne of the most striking features about the wave of demonstrations rolling across the country at the...
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Oxford Union cancels address by Sri Lanka president over security concerns
Threat of mass protests by Tamil activists against Mahinda RajapaskaThe Oxford Union has cancelled an address by the president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, citing security concerns posed by the...
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Tuition fees cap: Key vote to be held next week
Liberal Democrats now have a week to decide whether to collectively abstain or go three separate weeksThe key vote on lifting the cap on tuition fees will be held next Thursday, ministers confirmed...
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Helen Mirren: 'it's time we all understood Parkinson's disease'
Oscar-winning actor calls for a revolution in attitudes to sufferers of the degenerative neurological conditionHelen Mirren is calling for a revolution in attitudes towards Parkinson's disease so that...
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David Cameron orders rethink over school sports cuts after outcry
• We're listening to people's concerns,' says No 10• Signs of split as education department denies u-turnDavid Cameron has ordered a rethink of the government's controversial decision to cut funding...
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School plans centre to house its homeless pupils
Problems expected to get worse as cuts bite with sixth former spending four months sleeping in parkA school will launch an unprecedented appeal tomorrow to create an accommodation centre for homeless...
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Inventors unveil smart beermats that send out automatic chat-up lines
Newcastle University computer students create electronic mats that will help shy pubgoers break the ice with opposite sexThe lowly beermat, traditionally used by young pubgoers to play flicking games...
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Letters: Lib Dem turmoil over tuition fees
I voted for Nick Clegg as Lib Dem leader. I don't doubt him, or Vince Cable, when they say the deal on tuition fees is fairer than would have been the case post-Browne under either a majority Tory or...
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Fourth student protest planned for eve of Commons vote
NUS calls on students to rally once more over tuition fees as further cracks appear in coalition ranksThe National Union of Students has announced plans for further mass student protests on the eve of...
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How to make angel clothes pegs
Maggy Woodley from Red Ted Art explains how to make Christmas angels out of clothes pegsClothes peg painting is something that my three-year-old adores. So these are a team effort. He paints the pegs...
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Should journalists honour their word to a mass murderer?
I have just set my City University students their winter assignments and one of the questions concerns the ethical dilemma faced by a journalist who had to decide whether to breach the confidentiality...
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Snow! UK travel disruption continues – live coverage
More snow and freezing weather has delayed trains and closed schools, roads and airports. The government has ordered an urgent audit of the country's snow-readiness in the face of the severe...
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Protesting against the cuts is pointless | Deborah Orr
But the government's cuts, and their spending plans, are certainly worth scrutinisingNobody knows what the economic future holds. Nobody. The time to be most suspicious of people is when they seem most...
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University goes to court to evict sit-in protesters
Students protesting against tuition fees with a sit-in at University College London could face eviction todayStudents staging a sit-in at University College London in protest at a rise in tuition fees...
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Squeaky clean schools hide their worst nightmares from inspectors
It's not just naughty kids who get squirrelled away – one open evening I was put in a cupboardI once was a spy in the eastern bloc, just before the Wall came down. A double agent in Berlin. I'm still...
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Cribsheet 02.11.10
Playing field disaster: prefects race over to extract Gove Minor's foot from mouthNot again, Gove Minor. The prefects have had to step in this time to extricate him from his latest scrape.I mean, it's...
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The student protests are important and brave. But this is not war | Lara Pawson
Using the rhetoric of battle insults those who are living through conflict, and devalues the inspiring action students are takingGeorge Orwell was right. "When the general atmosphere is bad, language...
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Malcolm Griffiths obituary
Radical, campaigning theatre director, writer and academicThe director, writer and theatre design academic Malcolm Griffiths, who has died aged 67 of a heart attack, will be fondly remembered as much...
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