Brian Cathcart
Articles by brian cathcart
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Books
Atomised
- 10 January 2008
- 9 comments
After giving America the bomb, Robert Oppenheimer became the target of a political witch-hunt in the 1950s. But did he engineer his own downfall?
Politics
Person of 2007
- 13 December 2007
Your choice for the NS Person of the Year Humanity Award for 2007 goes to the boy whose Guantanamo campaign has just been crowned with success
Media
Rivers of blood enter the mainstream
- 06 December 2007
- 9 comments
Morrissey's lawyers want to distance the singer from hardline views on immigration . . . just as the Sun decides those views are perfectly respectable
Media
The lynchings that never happened
- 29 November 2007
Welcome though such restraint must be, it is so unlike the normal behaviour of our feral beasts that it raises the question, what is going on?
Media
Let's not shoot the climate messenger
- 22 November 2007
- 8 comments
The press is accused of painting such a bleak picture of the planet's prospects readers believe nothing can be done
Politics
Everybody this case touches, it hurts
- 15 November 2007
- 1 comment
The damage that was done in the early days of the Lawrence murder investigation cannot be easily undone, particularly not if the announcement of a new forensic breakthrough is part of a publicity stunt.
Politics
Yesterday's news
- 01 November 2007
- 3 comments
The British press has lost interest in Iraq. This is not a media conspiracy, but reflects the public's lack of appetite for the dismal truth
Media
Why we should worry about the BBC
- 25 October 2007
We need it and we need it to be good. But the latest cuts announced by Mark Thompson risk tipping the corporation into a downward spiral
Politics
Truth, lies and fools
- 18 October 2007
- 3 comments
Brian Cathcart argues that good journalism can be both right and wrong - at the same time
Media
When the readers go bonkers
- 11 October 2007
Editing a newspaper is all about knowing your readers and anticipating their likes and dislikes. But how can you do that when they are strongly Labour one week and Tory the next?
