Peter Kellner examines the reasons why the pollsters so badly underestimated the Tory vote in the 1992 election and asks whether it could happen again.

Jeremy Clarke retreats to an old people's home, but finds it far from restful

Only last year a group of clever teenagers at a famous English public school devised a programme which they put on the internet. Its task was simple: find any series of 16 digits that may be flying...

 

Cannabis accounts for 83 per cent of all drug offences in Britain-yet the drug causes neither violence nor death. Alcohol, a legal drug, causes some 25,000 deaths a year. Duncan Campbell examines the...

Writing on the eve of the Europe/Asia summit in early March, Brian Beedham explained why Europe is weak and divided

The Guardian has teamed up with Vincent Hanna to organise "Live Wire" debates. Important politicians will agree to be questioned live (or "in real time" as we computer types normally say) in...

Nigel Lawson had worked on Sundays

La precieuse serieuse

The arguments against freedom of the press are becoming more popular and persuasive