Editorial: The Nobel Peace Prize winner’s youngest son, Kim Aris, has been able to contact her by telephone through the embassy of Myanmar in London – even now she is her country’s best hope for a better tomorrow

Editorial: The Nobel Peace Prize winner’s youngest son, Kim Aris, has been able to contact her by telephone through the embassy of Myanmar in London – even now she is her country’s best hope for a better tomorrow

Editorial: On an ecological level, it is regrettable that ministers have been persuaded to look again at the North Sea gasfield – but it is an unavoidable answer to the much deeper challenges facing Britain’s energy security

The French national debt is too big, its economy too sluggish and its parliament and president jointly unable to get state spending down to sustainable levels - the mirror image of the complaint of the protesters, who want more spending on subsidies and schools. And so it’s in gridlock