I recently returned from Uganda, where I spent time with a group of volunteers at a primary school in a remote rural village near Iganga. They were working for East African Playgrounds, building playgrounds and running sports and arts programmes for orphans and children from poor families.

I...

There has been much huffing and not a small amount of puffing about the use of Twitter in recent times. Paul Chambers, Sky News, Joey Barton, Wayne Rooney - it seems barely a day goes by without someone somewhere putting their proverbial...

Alastair Morgan lives on the top floor of a high-rise building in north London, shielded by a network of locks, lifts, intercoms and buzzers. It makes him feel safe, he explains, since he has developed a habit of asking difficult questions about potentially dangerous people.

In March 1987 his brother,...

REMEMBER the News of the World? Just four months have passed since the paper was closed in the wake of the phone hacking scandal and already it has passed into media folklore. But now its ghost has been resurrected - this time for the right reasons.

In August 2010 reporters...

The Metropolitan Police's attempt to force The Guardian to reveal confidential sources in relation to the phone hacking scandal was an unprecedented and worrying move. Protection of sources is a central tenet of journalism and is covered both by the reporter's moral code and, more importantly, by law.

In 1989...