The Guardian: Main section

Britain's leading economics thinktank has accused all three main parties ‑ and particularly Labour ‑ for failing to come clean over the scale of cuts necessary after the election

Race debate stirs after London-born star of The Wire wins role as Norse deity Heimdall in Kenneth Branagh's new film Thor

Previously secret report concludes that Blair Peach 'almost certainly' died after blow from member of special patrol group

Screening and treatment with Flexi-Scope cut deaths by 43%, according to trial published in Lancet

Bonhams auction house acts after claims that second century AD artefacts were taken during illegal excavations

Evidence from M&S, Sainsbury, Next and Mothercare shows no correlation between social security costs and employment

Labour proposals would benefit low-income families, but Liberal Democrat reforms are the most radical

Donations to the Liberal Democrats during the second week of the election campaign were dwarfed by those to the Tories and Labour despite Nick Clegg's party surging in the polls

Lib Dem leader accused of profiting on the sale of his Brussels home while he was receiving daily allowance as an MEP

Meet the Brown loyalist the Conservatives want to subject to a 'reverse Portillo' at the election

Statistical genius Nate Silver has applied his insights to the concept of a uniform swing and suggests large Labour losses

Marina Hyde: Inexplicably, the Clegg campaign seems to have kept Lembit's wattage under a bushel thus far

The black leather briefcase is best left on the battlebus but the Longchamp tote bag is far more revealing

Public snubs eagerly awaited sequel to Oscar-winning portrayal of Stalin years

Row over Russia's access to Black Sea port sees smoke bombs and eggs thrown as MPs clash

He has seen off all comers. Now the great Filipino fighter is trying to make the rare leap from sportsman to statesman

Aviva has rejected an approach by the biggest shareholder in Prudential to break up its insurance rival

The Financial Services Authority could fine two high street banks over the 'unacceptably' poor way they handled customer complaints

Jonathan Freedland: Our electoral system's insane reality is that Lib Dem dreams will depend on the Labour party still doing well at the polls

Simon Jenkins: A coalition will split Clegg's own party and make no progress on PR. His best bet is to grab a plum job and quit the Lib Dems

Editorial: Notion of trying to pull off one of the biggest spending cuts in British history within one parliament is just implausible

Dave Prentis | Liberal Democrat ethnic-minority candidates | South Park and Muhammad

Country diary

Response: These gaudy garden flowers make our rural landscape look unnaturally suburban, says Andy Tasker

Olivier, London La Dolce Vita is a lazy reference point for this production of Middleton's Jacobean tragedy