Bill Greenwell

Articles by Bill Greenwell

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Keep It Up

  • 26 June 2000

British lovers were said to be the best in Europe, averaging 21 minutes a session. Women were said to be fed up with new Labour

Tony Blair's 115th Dream

  • 19 June 2000

The Millennium Bridge wobbled. An anti-hunt bill was suddenly introduced - with apologies to Bob Dylan

Knee Jerk

  • 12 June 2000

Austin Mitchell described the Blair administration as "government by knee jerk". The number of army deserters has risen sharply, because of bullying

Worm Perfect

  • 05 June 2000

A French scientist reckons humans have only 28,000 genes, rather than 100,000. This puts them only 9,000 ahead of worms. Gordon Brown accused Oxbridge of elitism

My Cherie Maman

  • 29 May 2000

Stevie Wonder - to whom, apologies - is 50 this week. Leo Blair is 0.

Nero Tolerance

  • 22 May 2000

The film Gladiator opened. William Hague claimed that a "sociological" justice system was not severe enough on the poor and unemployed

We Can Hack It

  • 15 May 2000

Labour suffered some electoral reverses. A computer virus affected 20 per cent of the world's computers

Not For Turning Out

  • 08 May 2000

There was the usual handwringing about low turnout in the council elections

Mandy Boy

  • 01 May 2000

Peter Mandelson is said to be about to be recalled from Northern Ireland to resume control of new Labour's elections (with apologies to Frederick Edward Weatherly)

The Co-operative Society

  • 24 April 2000

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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