Brian Cathcart
Articles by brian cathcart
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Media
When the cheerleaders lose faith
- 24 January 2008
Not long ago it was almost taboo for Conservative papers to criticise the police. Now they do it every day, and from the heart. Officers should be worried
Media
Stampeding the democratic process
- 17 January 2008
- 1 comment
It was journalism's most spectacular collective cock-up in years - a prime example of the results of "groupthink". And it happened on the world's most important story
Media
Point five: get rid of the vomit bucket
- 10 January 2008
- 1 comment
Did you survive the first great epidemic of 2008? It was in the papers all right, but did it really happen? Was it a disease, and was it really an epidemic? Who can tell?
Books
Atomised
- 10 January 2008
- 9 comments
After giving America the bomb, Robert Oppenheimer became the target of a political witch-hunt in the 1950s. But did he engineer his own downfall?
Politics
Person of 2007
- 13 December 2007
Your choice for the NS Person of the Year Humanity Award for 2007 goes to the boy whose Guantanamo campaign has just been crowned with success
Media
Rivers of blood enter the mainstream
- 06 December 2007
- 9 comments
Morrissey's lawyers want to distance the singer from hardline views on immigration . . . just as the Sun decides those views are perfectly respectable
Media
The lynchings that never happened
- 29 November 2007
Welcome though such restraint must be, it is so unlike the normal behaviour of our feral beasts that it raises the question, what is going on?
Media
Let's not shoot the climate messenger
- 22 November 2007
- 8 comments
The press is accused of painting such a bleak picture of the planet's prospects readers believe nothing can be done
Politics
Everybody this case touches, it hurts
- 15 November 2007
- 1 comment
The damage that was done in the early days of the Lawrence murder investigation cannot be easily undone, particularly not if the announcement of a new forensic breakthrough is part of a publicity stunt.
Politics
Yesterday's news
- 01 November 2007
- 3 comments
The British press has lost interest in Iraq. This is not a media conspiracy, but reflects the public's lack of appetite for the dismal truth
