Brian Cathcart

Brian Cathcart

Articles by Brian Cathcart

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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.

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

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

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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