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An unprecedented focus on the wounded

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 21 February 2008
  • 1 comment

Press coverage of the Bridgend suicides has caused offence and alarm, but a news blackout is not the answer

Dirty, appealing game

  • 07 February 2008
  • 3 comments

British journalism, we are told, is in a terrible state so it seems odd that so many people want to join in

Not soaraway any more

  • 31 January 2008

No one seems to hold the editor responsible for the Sun's decline in sales, least of all herself

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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