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Go on, wind us up
- Brian Cathcart
- 03 July 2008
People often claim they want cooler and more factual newspapers, but that is nonsense. What they really like is a news story that winds them up
A discreet wedding...
- Brian Cathcart
- 19 June 2008
The so-called first Anglican gay marriage was very far from a secret affair, so how come the news media failed to notice it?
The big story in Helmand?
- Brian Cathcart
- 05 June 2008
- 8 comments
Are the Taliban really in trouble, as a British commander now asserts? Don't look to journalism for an answer because, for all our gizmos, we have no way of telling
Journalists who investigate terror
- Brian Cathcart
- 29 May 2008
- 3 comments
The hounding of reporters like Shiv Malik should alarm us all, because of the danger the only sources of information will be government and the police
Trusting the detective
- Brian Cathcart
- 22 May 2008
The Jersey child abuse affair arrived in a blaze of headlines, but three months have passed and there is little sign of progress. Did the news media get it wrong?
How to report a heatwave
- Brian Cathcart
- 15 May 2008
- 2 comments
The only cliché banned from use is: "Phew, what a scorcher!"
They won, but they're not rejoicing
- Brian Cathcart
- 08 May 2008
- 3 comments
Right-wing commentators greeted Tory election success with doubt and anxiety. Isn't this is the outcome they were hoping for?
An unprecedented focus on the wounded
- Brian Cathcart
- 24 April 2008
- 1 comment
In Vietnam, it was body bags that mattered, and the damaged survivors were ignored. But today we read a great deal about the soldiers who have been maimed in our wars, and ministers and generals should be worried
Contempt for the law
- Brian Cathcart
- 17 April 2008
A woman has been charged and is awaiting trial, yet the papers carry on monstering her. The government could call a halt in the interest of justice, but it would rather not
The Sun holds the flame aloft
- Brian Cathcart
- 10 April 2008
- 1 comment
Most papers were disgusted by the Olympic flame's visit to London. Murdoch's Sun, however, judged the day a triumph. Now why would it think that?
