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Baiting the goody-goody

  • 21 June 2007
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When it comes to ethical standards in journalism, the BBC is in a league of its own

Trapped in a parallel universe

  • 14 June 2007
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There has surely never been a time when our papers have devoted more space to what's happening on television.

The limits of Jeremy Clarkson

  • 07 June 2007

As a columnist he is as coarse and intolerant as can be, but the bluster might just be hiding a real human being, for it seems that, when he wants to, he can be quite thoughtful

A law the government is subverting

  • 04 June 2007
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Instead of enforcing the Contempt of Court Act and protecting defendants from trial by headline, ministers want to dilute and weaken it

Keeping Madeleine's profile high

  • 28 May 2007

Alastair Campbell may not be involved, but the news management in Praia da Luz has been as sophisticated as any we have seen

The price of cast iron

  • 21 May 2007

Few people notice Reuters, but it is a very big player in global news and its independence matters. Now the guarantees that were once presented as cast-iron seem certain to vanish in a takeover worth more than £8bn

Friends in unexpected places

  • 14 May 2007

Which newspaper declared that "whatever happens, Gordon Brown will be one day remembered as a great chancellor"? Wrong. The answer is the Daily Mail. Surely this love affair can't last

Sources, smears and coded messages

  • 07 May 2007

The Met's most senior anti-terrorist detective says irresponsible leaks are putting lives at risk. So how can we find out who these leakers are? I know, let's ask a detective

There has never been a better time to die

  • 30 April 2007
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The maharajah who permitted garlic, the bouncing diva and the teenage groupie who kissed John Gielgud's knob - all signs that we live in the golden age of the newspaper obituary

A sudden case of collective reverse ferret

  • 23 April 2007

One moment wedding bells were ringing. The next, it was all over for Kate and her prince. The Sun's royal scoop caught everyone on the hop, and the result was . . . well, unattributable

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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