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

Swine flu is a headache for doctors

Ann Robinson: So far, the only symptom of the swine flu outbreak seen by most UK GPs is anxiety, but we could do with more guidance

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

C diff infections falling, say new figures

An 11% drop in cases of the superbug were recorded in the final quarter of last year, according to the Health Protection Agency

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?

All in the Mind by Alastair Campbell

Novel is admirable in its attempts to show how mental illness can afflict apparently stable people, says Oliver Marre

Voyage around my brother

Review: The Music Room by William FiennesJohn Burnside on a thoughtful and lyrical account of an extraordinary childhood