Brian Cathcart

Brian Cathcart

Articles by Brian Cathcart

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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?

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?

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

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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