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Why dead Arabs come last

  • 16 April 2007

The rules that determine whose story leads the front page and who gets buried on page 14 can be racist, sexist, chauvinist and snobbish, but the readers are as much to blame as the editors

The naming of Faye Turney

  • 09 April 2007

The Iranians may have paraded her on television, but not before the British press and British television had shown us - and them - just how vulnerable she was

When journalism is powerless

  • 02 April 2007
  • 3 comments

Despite years of fine reporting and many furious editorials, the bloodshed continues in Darfur and Mugabe hangs on in Zimbabwe.

Still losing money after all these years

  • 26 March 2007

Profit is everything to Rupert Murdoch, and yet, after more than a quarter of a century, he still can't get the Times into the black. The man has just turned 76; what is he waiting for?

We should all be so persecuted

  • 19 March 2007

A tale of David and Goliath, in which the part of Goliath - representing the ruthless left-wing intelligentsia and media - is taken by Lorraine Kelly

A white filter for your news

  • 12 March 2007

You will see very few black faces in the newsrooms of our national papers, and only someone who has had his head in the ground for 20 years would think that wasn't a problem

The wicked pleasure of Simon Heffer

  • 05 March 2007
  • 1 comment

It is a shame such gifts of expression have fallen to such a right-wing man, but if you dislike the present government his words have the power to make you say "Yes!" out loud

The newspapers on Mars

  • 26 February 2007

A daft, wonderful BBC cop show leaves no doubt that the Britain of 1973 was a strange, ugly place, but it turns out that the daily papers of that time have things to recommend them

NHS is becoming a four-letter word

  • 19 February 2007
  • 2 comments

The health service under attack plus modesty and Andrew Neil

A bit of a flap

  • 12 February 2007

Don't panic, we are told. There is no imminent danger to humans. Well, if that is the case, why all the fuss, why the acres of coverage?

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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