Culture: Media
Trial by fury
We live in an age when everyone is encouraged to have their say on Twitter or blogs. But, in our anger over MPs’ expenses or Nick Griffin, we are nearer to the baying, blood-hungry mob of ancient Rome or 18th-century Tyburn than we would like to admit
How the BNP came in from the cold
Question Time's grotesque stunt has allowed the BNP to enter the political mainstream. There is now no going back
Maziar Bahari released on bail
Newsweek reporter released after being held in Iran since June
The Beeb dances to its own beat
Opportunistic politicians should remember the BBC is a public-service, not a state, broadcaster
A defence of scientific inquiry
Simon Singh wins leave to appeal in libel case against the British Chiropractic Association
The Standard's decision to go free will spook the nationals
Lebedev's contrarian move has caught the nationals off guard
Marr's unfinest hour
Andrew Marr should realise the danger of giving voice to internet smears
The Murdoch-Cameron deal
What Murdoch can expect in return for the Sun's support of the Tory leader
PoliticsHome can remain impartial
Observer lives to fight another day
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Paul Auster
Interview
Alain de Botton
Pop art
The end of irony?
Film review
Bright Star
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Alfred Schnittke
Will Self
On Oscar Wilde
Jason Cowley
On Philip Roth
Slavoj Žižek
Lenin was right
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