Brian Cathcart

Brian Cathcart

Articles by Brian Cathcart

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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

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

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?

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

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.

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

Why we should worry about the BBC

  • 25 October 2007

We need it and we need it to be good. But the latest cuts announced by Mark Thompson risk tipping the corporation into a downward spiral

Truth, lies and fools

  • 18 October 2007
  • 3 comments

Brian Cathcart argues that good journalism can be both right and wrong - at the same time

When the readers go bonkers

  • 11 October 2007

Editing a newspaper is all about knowing your readers and anticipating their likes and dislikes. But how can you do that when they are strongly Labour one week and Tory the next?

All previous statements are inoperative

  • 04 October 2007

Tory papers had fun for months, baiting Cameron. Now there seems to be a hasty change of approach...

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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