The Chief Rabbi led the religious fightback today against Stephen Hawking’s assertion that modern physics leaves no role for God in the creation of the Universe. Writing for The Times, Lord Sacks said that Professor Hawking’s conclusion that scientific developments exclude the possibility of a God was an “elementary fallacy” of logic. The debate was ignited by an extract of Professor Hawking’s forthcoming book, which appeared exclusively in Eureka, published today with The Times. Britain’s most eminent scientist argues that far from being a once-in-a-million event that could only be accounted for by extraordinary serendipity or a divine hand, the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics. “Because there

William Hague was accused of a public relations mistake today for releasing details of his marriage

Ed Balls, the Shadow Schools Secretary called the former prime minister to discuss the Blair memoir as Mr Brown prepared for announcement about future plans, including working to increase global access to education and boosting