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The market delivers bad news

  • 02 October 2008
  • 3 comments

If Grade's shareholders had their way, ITV would probably broadcast no regional news programmes at all

Journalists: they can't live without us

  • 25 September 2008

Amid all the changes delivered by communications technology, no one has yet found another way of generating news content. It's just a pity they show so little interest in making that content better

Getting things right is not a luxury

  • 18 September 2008
  • 1 comment

In sacking most of its sub-editors, Express Newspapers is making a classic error. The job these people do is not an optional extra or an anachronism; it is integral

Get out the suntan lotion

  • 11 September 2008

Rain and floods mean a crisis for editors, a crisis of waffle. People are upset, but what can you say? Who can you blame? What does it mean?

The Asian policeman who got uppity

  • 04 September 2008
  • 9 comments

Tarique Ghaffur is claiming that he was discriminated against in the police service, and some in the right-wing press are not taking it well

Reading the political codes

  • 28 August 2008

How is it possible to find meaning in something a politician doesn't say? For the political correspondent, it is all in a day's work

To protect the innocent

  • 07 August 2008
  • 3 comments

Barry George was wrongly convicted in 2001 after the press, with the implicit blessing of the government, had destroyed what little reputation he may have had

Getting giddy over Obama

  • 24 July 2008
  • 1 comment

He is the Fab One, the new Diana, a cross between Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton, and when he comes to town we want to see his specialness for ourselves

Filming Max Mosley

  • 10 July 2008

When it comes to matters of privacy, the very last opinions we should listen to are those of papers like the News of the World

Go on, wind us up

  • 03 July 2008
  • 1 comment

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

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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