11 August 2010

Everything in society

1. 12.05am Private schools

   A penalty, not a perk

   Letters: Had I not been serving overseas we wouldn't have dreamed of sending our three children to boarding school
2. 12.05am Public services policy

   Backward steps for the 'big society'

   Letters: The prime minister's many statements on the issue could be considered either worryingly uneducated about the nature of civil society, or recklessly ideological
3. 12.05am Work & careers

   Defending jobs and services must be our current priority

   Response: The fight against a world dominated by work cannot begin during an economic crisis, says Candy Udwin
4. 12.01am Liberal-Conservative coalition

   Spending cuts: first blood

   Editorial: The coalition is putting the cart before the horse by brokering department cuts before deciding what needs to be done
5. 12.01am Medical research
   

   Antibiotics' efficiency wanes due to global spread of drug-resistant bacteria

   Gene giving high levels of resistance to drugs found in increasingly prevalent intestinal bacteria
6. 12.01am Health policy
   

   Ben Jennings on the health of the government

   Cartoon

   In the latest instalment of the Guardian's showcase of new cartoonists, Ben Jennings comments on the health of the current government

7. 12.00am Cancer
   

   Breath test to detect cancer may be possible, say scientists

   Study reveals prototype device could identify disease and differentiate between its four most common forms

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