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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?

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Ryan Gilbey

On film

Ryan Gilbey

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Jura

1984's birthplace

The house where Big Brother was born

Anthony Howard

On Peter Hitchens

The Broken Compass: How British Politics Lost Its Way

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