Brian Cathcart
Articles by Brian Cathcart
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Media
Trusting the detective
- 22 May 2008
The Jersey child abuse affair arrived in a blaze of headlines, but three months have passed and there is little sign of progress. Did the news media get it wrong?
Media
How to report a heatwave
- 15 May 2008
- 2 comments
The only cliché banned from use is: "Phew, what a scorcher!"
Media
They won, but they're not rejoicing
- 08 May 2008
- 3 comments
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
- 3 comments
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
