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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?
Welcome to the national metaphor
- Brian Cathcart
- 03 April 2008
- 1 comment
There was hubris, there was bathos, there was a moral for every taste, and it all happened right on the doorstep
You just can't rely on Tory papers, Gordon
- Brian Cathcart
- 19 March 2008
The third Heathrow runway will supposedly be great for business and will mean more cheap flights for all. You'd think the right-wing press would be all for it. But no
Jersey child abuse case
- Brian Cathcart
- 06 March 2008
- 16 comments
On the surface, coverage of the child abuse investigation in Jersey appeared predictably lurid and excitable so why were the island's police congratulating the media?
Farewell then, Fidel. You used to matter to us
- Brian Cathcart
- 28 February 2008
- 1 comment
So long in coming, the Cuban leader's departure did not even have the power to divide opinion here
Some stories need to be told
- Brian Cathcart
- 21 February 2008
- 1 comment
Press coverage of the Bridgend suicides has caused offence and alarm, but a news blackout is not the answer
