Hitchcock

A new kind of western conservatism

Sarah Palin's thrilling convention speech showed that Alaska's governor is a force to reckoned with

• Gerard Baker

Georgiana is the wrong role model

The concrete ceiling holding back British women exists in their own minds

• Alice Thomson

Alaska, where cops don't bother you

There may be questions about Palin's experience, but many will find her background attractive

• Damian Whitworth

How the press demeans science

The LHC is one of the most exciting experiments of this or any age, yet what most people remember is a frivolous half-truth

• Mark Henderson

Not for burning

Inflationary pressures are preventing cuts in interest rates; but price stability, not growth and jobs, must remain the goal of monetary policy

Grid calls for more power from generators

National Grid has asked electricity generators to bring power stations online to make up for a spate of breakdowns

SNP ready to fight Westminster over tax

Salmond throws down gauntlet to critics, whom he dares to oppose scrapping council tax

'Clockwork Orange' friar had protected prostitute

Italian monks beaten in savage 'Clockwork Orange' style attack may have been targeted after protecting prostitute from gang

Muslim guilty of child cruelty over Shia ritual

Syed Mustafa Zaidi, a devout Muslim, made two teenage boys perform a self-flagellation ritual during a religious ceremony

Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fraser, VC

Submariner who sank a Japanese cruiser in a daring attack off Singapore in 1945 for which he and a leading seaman won the VC