From Roy Hodgson to Carol Thatcher, this fixation on celebrity gaffes tells us nothing about racism
Joseph Harker: Britain is a nation in denial. While celebrity stories grab the headlines, true discrimination is thriving and largely ignored
OFM awards 2013 best blogger: The Skint Foodie
The Skint Foodie: Chronic alcoholism lost Tony his six-figure job, his nice home and his family. Now recovering, he pours his thoughts into a wise and funny food blog
Oops – the Nazi-built Berlin Wall and a ‘beautiful’ football posterior
Mistakes that raise eyebrows and cause red faces
Letters of Note: the website that revived the fine art of correspondence
Letter-writing might seem set for extinction, but millions have been flocking to a website to pore over the correspondence collected by Shaun Usher. He talks to Tim Lewis
Deb Perelman: big ideas in a small kitchen
Deb Perelman writes one of the world's biggest food blogs from a galley-style New York kitchen. How would she cope on a boat?
Is Twitter worth a flutter?
It's a hi-tech alternative for investors pondering a punt on Royal Mail, but do the numbers add up, asks Juliette Garside
Twitter’s founding investor expected to net more than $1bn from flotation
Evan Williams will not be the biggest winner, private equity boss Suhail Rizvi is believed to hold 15% stake worth at least $1.9bn
Who are the Twitter millionaires?
Early Twitter backers who can expect an IPO windfall include a Saudi prince, a Hollywood insider and a Murdoch lieutenant
Is it ever OK to photograph strangers on a train?
Nell Frizzell: Tumblr accounts featuring secretly taken photos might seem amusing – but the subject may not see it that way
Radio 1 becomes Radio Schtum
Media Monkey: The BBC station will only play music for 12 hours on Friday, as the presenters talk to the nation solely via Twitter
Obituaries. Full of ‘eccentricities’ and ‘devotion’. Time for a bit of honesty
Mona Chalabi: A true representation of human complexity is something to be respected in life. So why are the dead treated so differently?
Twitter and the transformation of democracy
John Naughton: The social networking service has the power to control the expression of public opinion in political debate
How Twitter became a beating pulse of global news
A look back at Twitter's rise from one tweet to a cacophony, as the social network prepares to go public
Radio 1 apologises for ‘ironic’ tweet about London Grammar frontwoman
Station accepts it was a mistake to tweet Hannah Reid was 'fit', but Breakfast show team's apology doesn't convince everyone
Newsnight editor apologises for calling Labour MP ‘boring snoring’
Ian Katz describes his tweet about shadow cabinet member Rachel Reeves as 'ill-judged'. By John Plunkett and Josh Halliday