Bill Greenwell

Articles by Bill Greenwell

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Believing in Britain

  • 11 September 2000

William Hague launched a "mini-manifesto", Believing in Britain, at the start of the new school term

Survivor

  • 04 September 2000

New game shows Survivor and Jailbreak promise final big-money winners. Richard Branson must convince the NLC that he can run the Lottery. William Hague . . .

Two Little Berks

  • 28 August 2000

Rolf Harris has just been given a new record deal as a "pop dance" act

Nasty Nick

  • 21 August 2000

William Hague is said to be cultivating a new image. The villain in C4's Big Brother attracted headlines for his cunning duplicities

Perfectly Inoffensive

  • 07 August 2000

Christening pictures of Leo were described by Downing Street as "perfectly inoffensive", although Tony Blair used them as a basis for complaint to the PCC

Time For Grub

  • 31 July 2000

Hospital research has shown that leaving sterile maggots to clean a wound is much more effective than conventional treatment. Investigations continued into the leaking of Downing Street memos

Robot Wars

  • 24 July 2000

Replicas of the junk-built opponents in the TV series Robot Wars are to be sold as Christmas toys. A TV documentary inside 10 Downing Street received mixed reviews

Star Wars

  • 17 July 2000

A US missile, testing a defence system, failed entirely to hit its target, a dummy warhead. "This is rocket science . . . things do happen," commented the system's director, General Kadish

Hardballs

  • 10 July 2000

William Hague suggested compulsory school uniform. Tony Blair suggested arresting "louts", taking them to cashpoints and fining them £100 on the spot

Get Off Of My Cloud

  • 03 July 2000

Tony Blair and William Hague are both openly consulting religious thinkers. It's 40 years since Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met up as teenagers

Facebook’s $1.6bn woman

Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook’s $1.6bn woman

A witch-hunt?

A witch-hunt against the Sun?

Osborne's woes

Osborne hoisted with his own petard

Marr's monarchism

Enough of this royal deference

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012
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