Workers in Alabama tackle the Gulf oil spill. BP’s Tony Hayward today praised the company’s ‘unprecedented response’ Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images BP formally confirmed today that it had axed its boss Tony Hayward in an attempt to appease mounting anger in the... 

Sir Hugh Orde, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, is against the idea of elected commissioners. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Elected regional police commissioners with the power to fire chief constables and a new national crimefighting agency are likely to be... 

A child enjoying her daily source of calcium, proteins and vitamins. Photograph: Getty It doesn’t rhyme, obviously. But that’s not why David Cameron won’t be known as a “milk snatcher”. He understands, thanks largely to Margaret Thatcher (who is still known as... 

William Hague and former special adviser Chris Myers. Photograph: Xposurephotos.com I have a very good friend, called Ben, like me a Hackneyite. What we do is this: every six months or so we meet in a scuzzy pub in the middle of an afternoon, like schoolboys skiving off double maths, and we...