World leaders missed chance to tackle climate change, says economist
Nicholas Stern tells the Hay festival the global economic crisis was a perfect opportunity to make progress on climate change – and we missed it
Windfarm threatens future of Scottish book town that reinvented itself
Wigtown, which looks out on Britain’s largest local nature reserve and the Galloway Hills, will be blighted by windpower, say locals
Cherie Booth calls for quotas to help women succeed in politics and business
Barrister tells audience at the Hay festival equality would take a 'long time' if left to happen naturally
Star Wars original cast looked ‘a little melted’ for Episode VII – Carrie Fisher
Princess Leia actor describes to Hay festival her reunion with Harrison Ford and others to work on first of new Star Wars films
Illuminating ideas (and a lot of fun) in a small-town idyll
Where else could you learn the latest black-hole theory, hear unfettered political debate and dance to Hot Chip? Tracy McVeigh reports from the alternative festival at Hay-on-Wye
Hay: middle class and proud in the land of the whittled breadboard
Zoe Williams attends the literature and arts festival where experts are still experts, and that's why people come
HowTheLightGetsIn 2014: philosophy, music and thought for all
Festival director Hilary Lawson reveals what to expect at the philosophy and music festival, and how the event will challenge assumptions. Interview by Tom Lamont
Does everyone share Hall’s vision of making BBC arts as important as news?
Maggie Brown: Ratings-focused managers could sabotage director general's plans for more Glyndebourne, Hay festival and Royal Academy
Why the Mail’s Peter Hitchens won’t be making Hay
Media Monkey: MoS columnist dropped from lineup at Telegraph-sponsored festival
Google defends listing extremist websites in its search results
Eric Schmidt tells Hay festival that legal information 'even if it's despicable, will be indexed', and may help track terrorists
Somaliland’s Hargeisa book festival celebrates fifth year
Horn of Africa's answer to Hay-on-Wye fills cultural void for young in country where 70% of population are under 30
Climate change is not science fiction, Jeremy Clarkson
Bill McGuire: Scientifically illiterate celebrity deniers are hiding behind their pulpits in the national press
Philosophy: Back to big thinking
Editorial: There is a new more expansive mood taking shape in British philosophy, as borne out at Hay-on-Wye
Banning Kindles is no way of celebrating books
Alison Flood: Is your e-reader turning you into a 'robot'? A campaign from Hay bookseller Derek Addyman to drive Amazon's Kindle out of town is just silly
The case for celebrities at book festivals
Cheltenham literary director says the word literature 'frightens people' and appeals to book festivals to 'stop knocking each other'