Mark Thomas
Articles by mark thomas
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Society
Mark Thomas warns the toffs that polo is next
- 27 September 2004
- 1 comment
To those who cry, "You just want to spoil the aristocracy's pleasure" - you are right. After fox-hunting, we're coming for polo, then Glyndebourne and maybe the Cresta Run
Society
Mark Thomas writes a letter to Michael Howard
- 16 August 2004
The government will charge prisoners "bed and board" if their appeals succeed. That's the spirit. That'll teach them to be innocent while looking guilty and to sponge off the state
Books
How to heckle
- 09 August 2004
A Summer in the Park: a journal of Speakers' Corner
Tony Allen Freedom Press, 205pp, £8.50
ISBN 1904491049
Society
Mark Thomas declines to stock up on baked beans
- 02 August 2004
Anyone who wanders around the house with a government checklist during a terror attack, making sure that their tinned beans and credit cards are to hand, deserves to die. ByMark Thomas
Society
Mark Thomas - buys himself a priesthood
- 19 July 2004
Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya and the United States: an axis of what? An axis, as it happens, of countries that wanted to ban sex education for adolescents
Society
Mark Thomas joins Colombia's human rights activists
- 05 July 2004
In Colombia, right-wing paras once played a football match against the military using the severed head of a local community leader. Things have improved since then, but not much
Middle East
Mark Thomas knows where Mrs T should be buried
- 21 June 2004
The UK is selective when it comes to judging a nation's human rights record. That's why it supports Turkey, with its vital oil interests, against the Kurds, who have nothing
Society
Mark Thomas on why ID cards won't deter terrorists
- 07 June 2004
A poll has found that 16 per cent of the population would engage in civil disobedience against ID cards and that 6 per cent - a million people - would go to prison
Society
Mark Thomas discovers Coca-Cola's Nazi links
- 24 May 2004
I am shocked when, at a conference on corporate responsibility, the man from McDonald's standing next to me starts criticising Coca-Cola on ethical grounds
Society
Mark Thomas blames Labour for the BNP
- 10 May 2004
Blair and co helped to create the hysteria over asylum-seekers. Now they insist the only way to beat the BNP is to vote Labour. What a cheek!
