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Addicted to punishment

Robert Chesshyre — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Observations on prisons

Insurrection stirs in the queue

Robert Chesshyre — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:00:00 GMT

Observations on post offices

A very good monarch

Robert Chesshyre — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:00:00 GMT

Observations on Ronald Reagan

School for scandal

Robert Chesshyre — Mon, 26 May 2003 12:00:00 GMT

Ahead of the Class: how an aspiring headmistress gave children back their future Marie Stubbs John Murray, 260pp, �16.99 ISBN 0719563356

"Do you mean to say that you are all in debt?"

Robert Chesshyre — Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:00:00 GMT

Robert Chesshyre on the late David Astor, the Observer editor who asked his staff what a mortgage was

Why Knacker has to wake up

Robert Chesshyre — Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:00:00 GMT

They won't go out except in pairs and they take a day off with the merest sniffle. Robert Chesshyre on Blunkett's mission to end Spanish practices in the police

Where even the milk float has armour

Robert Chesshyre — Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:00:00 GMT

It needed a murder to get anybody interested in the Peckham estate

The town that has no middle class

Robert Chesshyre — Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:00:00 GMT

In West Bromwich, where a by-election is due this month, Robert Chesshyrefinds that smokestacks still smoke and metal is still bashed

And is there honey by the Tees?

Robert Chesshyre — Mon, 03 Jul 2000 12:00:00 GMT

Ravaged by manufacturing decline, infuriated by southern ignorance, the north still feels like another country. Robert Chesshyre reports

The New Statesman Profile - The British bobby

Robert Chesshyre — Mon, 01 May 2000 12:00:00 GMT

Authoritative and avuncular, he was a symbol of a society at ease with itself - and the public can't get enough of him. The British bobby profiled