Brian Cathcart

Brian Cathcart

Articles by Brian Cathcart

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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

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?

How to report a heatwave

  • 15 May 2008
  • 2 comments

The only cliché banned from use is: "Phew, what a scorcher!"

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?

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

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

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?

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

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.

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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