Brian Cathcart

Brian Cathcart

Articles by Brian Cathcart

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Odd man out

  • 29 January 2009

The Strangest Man: the Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius Graham Farmelo Faber & Faber, 495pp, £22.50

The wars of too many words

  • 11 December 2008
  • 1 comment

Since the Independent offered its readers more on Saturday, bulk has been the weapon of choice in the circulation war

Against the liberalocracy

  • 13 November 2008
  • 2 comments

The editor of the Daily Mail sees himself as a victim, desperately leading the defence of the values of the mass of decent people

The Real McCann Scandal

  • 23 October 2008
  • 32 comments

Brian Cathcart details how the British press set out to systematically destroy the parents of Madeleine McCann.

News hit by whiteout

  • 09 October 2008
  • 1 comment

The press is still in panicky denial over diversity and racism, as the coverage of Sir Ian Blair's departure shows

The market delivers bad news

  • 02 October 2008
  • 3 comments

If Grade's shareholders had their way, ITV would probably broadcast no regional news programmes at all

Journalists: they can't live without us

  • 25 September 2008

Amid all the changes delivered by communications technology, no one has yet found another way of generating news content. It's just a pity they show so little interest in making that content better

Getting things right is not a luxury

  • 18 September 2008
  • 1 comment

In sacking most of its sub-editors, Express Newspapers is making a classic error. The job these people do is not an optional extra or an anachronism; it is integral

Get out the suntan lotion

  • 11 September 2008

Rain and floods mean a crisis for editors, a crisis of waffle. People are upset, but what can you say? Who can you blame? What does it mean?

The Asian policeman who got uppity

  • 04 September 2008
  • 9 comments

Tarique Ghaffur is claiming that he was discriminated against in the police service, and some in the right-wing press are not taking it well

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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