Don’t leave migration policy to the BNP

Michael Keith: As the election approaches Britain needs to address the tensions created by old equalities legislation and the contemporary realities of job competition amid recession

Tony Smith

Obituary: Hugely prolific and fluent writer of medical journalism

Sheep’s head broth? Lovely

Review: The credit crunch has sparked a boom in thrift-lit, discovers Carole Cadwalladr, nowhere more so than in cunning ways to serve up leftovers

Gloom, not doom

A Field Guide to Melancholy by Jacky BowringSadness is good for you, finds Ian Pindar

Public Inquiry

Paul Gilbert is an author and professor of clinical psychology

The bedsit epiphany

Eckhart Tolle, Oprah Winfrey's favourite guru, has sold more books than almost any other spiritual author. So what's his Easter message?

The parent trap

Review: Secret World of the Working Mother by Fiona Millar, The See-Saw by Julia Hobsbawm and The Idle Parent by Tom HodgkinsonIan Sansom assesses three guides to coping with the next generation