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When the cheerleaders lose faith

  • 24 January 2008

Not long ago it was almost taboo for Conservative papers to criticise the police. Now they do it every day, and from the heart. Officers should be worried

Stampeding the democratic process

  • 17 January 2008
  • 1 comment

It was journalism's most spectacular collective cock-up in years - a prime example of the results of "groupthink". And it happened on the world's most important story

Point five: get rid of the vomit bucket

  • 10 January 2008
  • 1 comment

Did you survive the first great epidemic of 2008? It was in the papers all right, but did it really happen? Was it a disease, and was it really an epidemic? Who can tell?

Rivers of blood enter the mainstream

  • 06 December 2007
  • 9 comments

Morrissey's lawyers want to distance the singer from hardline views on immigration . . . just as the Sun decides those views are perfectly respectable

The lynchings that never happened

  • 29 November 2007

Welcome though such restraint must be, it is so unlike the normal behaviour of our feral beasts that it raises the question, what is going on?

Let's not shoot the climate messenger

  • 22 November 2007
  • 8 comments

The press is accused of painting such a bleak picture of the planet's prospects readers believe nothing can be done

Why we should worry about the BBC

  • 25 October 2007

We need it and we need it to be good. But the latest cuts announced by Mark Thompson risk tipping the corporation into a downward spiral

When the readers go bonkers

  • 11 October 2007

Editing a newspaper is all about knowing your readers and anticipating their likes and dislikes. But how can you do that when they are strongly Labour one week and Tory the next?

All previous statements are inoperative

  • 04 October 2007

Tory papers had fun for months, baiting Cameron. Now there seems to be a hasty change of approach...

The Sun comes out in Bournemouth

  • 27 September 2007
  • 1 comment

Our top-selling daily seems to have taken against Gordon Brown. But does it matter any more what the Sun says?

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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