Editorial: High-tech suits worn by the UK’s skeleton team have got the all-clear after questions from rivals. But questions over the acceptable limits of innovation will persist
Editorial: The debauchery of the Haiti sex parties is outrageous. But it must not be allowed to overshadow the courage and compassion of thousands of aid workers, nor the value of aid itself
Editorial: Many billionaires try to influence the politics of countries that aren’t their own. Most do so by stealth but George Soros is open – and usually right
Editorial: New research shows that school-based programmes won’t solve the crisis. Without tougher action on the food industry, it will cash in – while the rest of us pay
Editorial: For local democracy to work, Britain will have to abandon a politics which for 30 years has accrued power to markets and the financial sector at the expense of everyone else
Editorial: Removing Waterhouse’s painting from view in the Manchester Art Gallery may have been a clumsy gesture – but it stimulated an important debate
The Guardian view on Northern Ireland talks collapsing: the lost language of power-sharing