Watching Brief
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Watching brief - Amanda Platell learns from a death
- 08 August 2005
There was an excruciating dignity about Anthony Walker's sister Dominique as she read what no sister believes she will have to read: her little brother's eulogy
Watching brief - Amanda Platell
- 01 August 2005
What would be the point of singling out some granny with a shopping trolley for a search? So that the suicide bombers' racial group could feel better about itself?
Watching brief - Amanda Platell
- 25 July 2005
Today is in danger of becoming yesterday's first news choice. The sound of Jim Naughtie flirting with Sarah Montague had me reaching for the sick bag
Watching brief - Peter Wilby enlists against his will
- 18 July 2005
So Londoners calmly went about their business. What on earth did we expect them to do? Rush around the streets screaming? March on Whitehall?
Watching brief - Peter Wilby fails to emote
- 11 July 2005
Increasingly, newspapers have decided that there isn't a market for information and analysis, so they offer instant emotional responses instead
Watching brief - Peter Wilby narrows our horizons
- 04 July 2005
G8 - I have advanced the theory that the British, bored with celebrities and domestic politics, once more want news of the outside world. Alas, I've now decided it is probably wrong
Watching brief - Peter Wilby disses the archbishop
- 27 June 2005
With the sacking of Dominic Lawson at the Sunday Telegraph, nearly all the public editors have gone. Now it is the marketing departments that have the power
Watching brief - Peter Wilby packs hacks off to maths class
- 20 June 2005
The Daily Mail seems very relaxed about its columnist Stephen Glover's plans to launch another paper. This may appear mysterious, but think about it for a moment . .
UK Politics
Watching brief - Peter Wilby doubts the need for the lobby
- 13 June 2005
The parliamentary lobby is probably the last closed shop in the country and its defenders insist it still lends vital drama to our politics. I'm not so sure
Watching brief - Peter Wilby smells smoke over Gleneagles
- 06 June 2005
We must all hope, for the sake of newspaper sales and the anti-globalisation movement, that Scotland is, as promised, shrouded in black smoke in July
