Brian Cathcart

Brian Cathcart

Articles by Brian Cathcart

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Reading the political codes

  • 28 August 2008

How is it possible to find meaning in something a politician doesn't say? For the political correspondent, it is all in a day's work

The book of Dave

  • 21 August 2008
  • 2 comments

In conversation with the editor of GQ, the would-be prime minister reveals . . . that he "doesn't really like Pot Noodles"

A question of character

  • 14 August 2008

The deaths of four soldiers at Deepcut army barracks have inspired a compelling play in this year's Fringe. Brian Cathcart, who investigated the real-life cases, is intrigued to see himself brought to life on stage

To protect the innocent

  • 07 August 2008
  • 3 comments

Barry George was wrongly convicted in 2001 after the press, with the implicit blessing of the government, had destroyed what little reputation he may have had

Getting giddy over Obama

  • 24 July 2008
  • 1 comment

He is the Fab One, the new Diana, a cross between Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton, and when he comes to town we want to see his specialness for ourselves

Filming Max Mosley

  • 10 July 2008

When it comes to matters of privacy, the very last opinions we should listen to are those of papers like the News of the World

Go on, wind us up

  • 03 July 2008
  • 1 comment

People often claim they want cooler and more factual newspapers, but that is nonsense. What they really like is a news story that winds them up

A discreet wedding...

  • 19 June 2008

The so-called first Anglican gay marriage was very far from a secret affair, so how come the news media failed to notice it?

The big story in Helmand?

  • 05 June 2008
  • 8 comments

Are the Taliban really in trouble, as a British commander now asserts? Don't look to journalism for an answer because, for all our gizmos, we have no way of telling

Journalists who investigate terror

  • 29 May 2008
  • 3 comments

The hounding of reporters like Shiv Malik should alarm us all, because of the danger the only sources of information will be government and the police

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Ryan Gilbey

On film

Ryan Gilbey

Jura

1984's birthplace

The house where Big Brother was born

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Anthony Howard

On Peter Hitchens

The Broken Compass: How British Politics Lost Its Way

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