Bill Greenwell

Articles by Bill Greenwell

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Suicide Bomber

  • 22 April 2002

Public Bespoke

  • 15 April 2002

Musharraf threatened India with the atom bomb. Voice coach Philippa Davies described the effect of techniques making politicians sound "significant and secret" as "an auditory cuddle"

Cut!

  • 01 April 2002

"Body Worlds" preserves "plastinated" corpses. EMI is cutting rock acts, Consignia is cutting jobs. A Labour "stalking-horse" was suggested

Kama Sutra Chameleon

  • 25 March 2002

Back-bench MPs were said to be considering Tony Blair's future. A new translation of the Kama Sutra is out this week

Your Country Needs You

  • 18 March 2002

A new government initiative to market rural areas was launched by Joan Collins. Its slogan is "Your Countryside, You're Welcome"

Eddie Willing and Able

  • 11 March 2002

"Working and playing hard is fun as long as it's rewarding" - Prince Edward, on giving up his TV company job to help the Queen with her jubilee

Rats!

  • 04 March 2002

Spring has come early, and rats are breeding throughout the year. Tony Blair asked that the next hundred years be spent "as far as possible" under a Labour government (with apologies to Robert Browning)

Her Moles Go Marching On

  • 25 February 2002

(with apologies to Anonymous)

The Popular Will

  • 18 February 2002

Will Young won Pop Idol after eight million phoned the programme. He is a politics graduate - unlike George Bush

Please Mr Postmen

  • 11 February 2002

Postcomm aims to lift Consignia's postal monopoly (With apologies to the Marvelettes and the Beatles)

Andrew Stephen

President Cheney?

Get ready for President Cheney

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Tory foes

If Dave doesn’t win, it’s open season

James Macintyre

Lib Dem dilemma

The Lib Dem dilemma

Film review

Sons of Cuba

Sons of Cuba (PG)

Television

Fat Man in a White Hat

Fat Man in a White Hat

John Gray

Anarchism's failure

The World That Never Was: a True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents

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