Brian Cathcart
Articles by brian cathcart
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Media
They won, but they're not rejoicing
- 08 May 2008
Right-wing commentators greeted Tory election success with doubt and anxiety. Isn't this is the outcome they were hoping for?
Media
An unprecedented focus on the wounded
- 24 April 2008
- 1 comment
In Vietnam, it was body bags that mattered, and the damaged survivors were ignored. But today we read a great deal about the soldiers who have been maimed in our wars, and ministers and generals should be worried
Media
Contempt for the law
- 17 April 2008
A woman has been charged and is awaiting trial, yet the papers carry on monstering her. The government could call a halt in the interest of justice, but it would rather not
Media
The Sun holds the flame aloft
- 10 April 2008
- 1 comment
Most papers were disgusted by the Olympic flame's visit to London. Murdoch's Sun, however, judged the day a triumph. Now why would it think that?
Media
Welcome to the national metaphor
- 03 April 2008
- 1 comment
There was hubris, there was bathos, there was a moral for every taste, and it all happened right on the doorstep
UK Politics
Is Boris faking it?
- 27 March 2008
- 46 comments
A new, serious Boris Johnson is now being offered to the voters of London - thanks to the heavy stage-direction of Tory party minders.
Media
Time for some forceful self-regulation
- 19 March 2008
- 1 comment
As the Express and Star apologise to the McCanns, newspaper editors should be calling for a full public inquiry into their coverage of the Madeleine story
Media
You just can't rely on Tory papers, Gordon
- 19 March 2008
The third Heathrow runway will supposedly be great for business and will mean more cheap flights for all. You'd think the right-wing press would be all for it. But no
Media
Jersey child abuse case
- 06 March 2008
- 15 comments
On the surface, coverage of the child abuse investigation in Jersey appeared predictably lurid and excitable so why were the island's police congratulating the media?
Media
Farewell then, Fidel. You used to matter to us
- 28 February 2008
- 1 comment
So long in coming, the Cuban leader's departure did not even have the power to divide opinion here
