Jill Insley: For the rest of us deflation means rising unemployment and more cuts in interest rates

Peter Preston: It's absurd for the BBC to clutch vital facts and phone-in cash so close to its chest

Peter Preston: The trust, has offered the corporation a chance to be appreciated for what it offers not where it threatens to go next

Peter Preston: The committee that never sleeps over questions of newspaper self-regulation and privacy strikes again in February

Peter Preston: Look at the latest ABC-sanctified unique user totals for Fleet Street websites

Will Hutton: We need to reinvent the British banking system

Catherine Bennett: License fee rebels are hellbent on wounding one of the few organizations that defends national traditions

Barbara Ellen: Surely feminists would be grateful to accept Cheryl Cole as one of their own - even if she is a bit on the small side

John Sergeant leaves Strictly Come Dancing have played his way into the public's heart with two left feet

Andrew Rawnsley: The prime minister will only kill speculation about going to the country in the spring by unequivocally saying he won't

Stephen Pritchard: You might think The Observer's concern for the environment arose only in the past 20 years as global warming became apparent

Ruth Sunderland: Failure to act now could result in new, deep and lasting scars on the economic landscape

Nick Cohen: No manager of a state bureaucracy should award themselves more than the Prime Minister's annual salary

Martine Aubry is elected leader of the French Socialist party by just 42 votes.

Canadian firm of eco-inventors claims to have found the solution to the world's worsening water shortages

While the world focuses on piracy off its coast, the failed state is being torn apart by violence

British Islamist Rashid Rauf said to have been killed by missile attack in north-west Pakistan

Decision to let dance hall reggae artist Bounty Killer perform in east London denounced by gay pressure groups

Nearly 3,000 have been killed in the city over the past 12 months amid drug conflicts and kidnaps

Birmingham-born terror suspect, Rashid Rauf, believed to be killed in Pakistan