Brian Cathcart

Brian Cathcart

Articles by Brian Cathcart

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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...

The Sun comes out in Bournemouth

  • 27 September 2007
  • 1 comment

Our top-selling daily seems to have taken against Gordon Brown. But does it matter any more what the Sun says?

For the benefit of Mr Al Fayed

  • 20 September 2007
  • 1 comment

The ultimate media circus is about to begin, featuring jewellers, lawyers, embalmers, spies, doctors, lost boxes and of course the proprietor of Harrods. This one will run and run

The greening of Greenland

  • 13 September 2007

As the Arctic ice retreats, some communities find that a new way of life beckons. Greenlanders are getting their place in the sun at last, reports Brian Cathcart - but for how long?

Our world of rough-and-ready ethics

  • 06 September 2007

Journalists in the US agonise about the smallest details, but here we prefer to use the broad brush, telling ourselves that's how the readers like it. Soon we will have to change

Men of principles

  • 30 August 2007

Faust in Copenhagen: a Struggle for the Soul of Physics Gino Segre Jonathan Cape, 320pp, £20

A spiral of excitability

  • 23 August 2007
  • 3 comments

It was a month when we might have expected things to calm down in the McCann story, but instead editors and reporters have been furiously barking up all the wrong trees

Let's hear it for Stumpy, Keano and the zorse

  • 02 August 2007

Animals are the unsung heroes of the news agenda

The social acceptability of fake goods

  • 26 July 2007

There is something false in the outrage about deception by television. Mostly we turn a blind eye to dodgy production ethics because after all, it's just entertainment...

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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