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Writers get caught out by a real story

  • 28 August 2006

Given the failings of sports journalism, I wonder if we shall ever know the full details of the Oval débâcle

A show of damp knickers in public

  • 21 August 2006

As suspects in the alleged airline terror plot are detained, the holidaying Tony Blair comes under scrutiny - for his wet smalls

The libel law is an ass

  • 14 August 2006

Damages don't hurt press barons. For our system to provide proportionate redress, these cases must be taken out of the courts

A matter of context

  • 07 August 2006

I'm going to stick my neck out and say that, since it began bombing Lebanon, Israel, which usually gets a good press, has had a bad press

A long, hack summer on Fleet Street

  • 31 July 2006

The hot weather brought the anti-global-warming pundits out of the jungle and into the open with fixed bayonets

It was the Beeb wot won it

  • 24 July 2006

Faced with what could be the biggest story in British political history, the papers were forced to raise their game

The internet or something . . .

  • 17 July 2006

Bloggers didn't drive the Prescott story. They may have stirred it up a bit, but newspaper journalists broke it

Look out, there's no reporter about

  • 10 July 2006

The papers demand "more police on the street". What about getting a few more journalists out there as well?

Wags beget Wams beget Warbles

  • 03 July 2006

The trouble with football is that the game lasts only 90 minutes and most of the time not much happens. For papers the challenge is to fill all those pages

Who's the twerp and who writes twaddle?

  • 26 June 2006

How rapidly the press marginalises subjects such as the brutality of British colonialism and puts them into a box marked "loony"

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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Will China rule the world?

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