Jason Cowley

Articles by Jason Cowley

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Property scandal

  • 20 September 2004
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A few rich people, many of them aristocrats, own 69 per cent of the land in Britain. As a result, house prices are so high, millions can't afford to buy a home. The NS launches a campaign to end this feudal system

We can be heroes

  • 23 August 2004

George Orwell was troubled by the way in which boys' weeklies evaded the problems of contemporary society, seeing it as a form of covert political control. But we didn't read comics for realism, writes Jason Cowley. We read them to be inspired

The long view

  • 26 July 2004

Brief Lives
W F Deedes Macmillan, 212pp, £12.99
ISBN 1405040858

Sport - Jason Cowley laments a "cuppy" summer

  • 26 July 2004

This was to have been a "golden" summer. Instead, it's been rather cuppy

Sport - Jason Cowley finds British sports writing is mediocre

  • 19 July 2004

British sports writing is mediocre, full of cliche and lacking in humour

Sport - Jason Cowley considers the trouble with tennis

  • 12 July 2004

Tennis in Britain is not a game at all. It's just a fortnight

Sport - Jason Cowley on a goalie who ran off with a barmaid

  • 07 June 2004

The champagne-swilling goalkeeper who ran off with a barmaid

Sport - Jason Cowley remembers supporting West Germany

  • 31 May 2004

To my parents' disgust, I once supported West Germany's football team

Sport - Jason Cowley mourns an American footballer

  • 24 May 2004

Can you imagine an English football pro leaving the game to fight a war?

Sport - Jason Cowley predicts cricket will die in Zimbabwe

  • 17 May 2004

Cricket in Zimbabwe has no future because it is almost wholly a white game

Vince Cable

The bankers' escape

The bankers cannot believe their luck

China

The next superpower

A new sun rises in the east

Sweden

Death of a dream

The death of a dream

James Macintyre

Brown's PR gamble

Brown’s PR gamble

John Pilger

Travel and tragedy

Back to the point of departure

Iran

Hidden meanings

Hidden meanings

John Bercow

Speaker's secrets

Secrets of the Speaker

Film review

Shirin

Movies, minus the popcorn

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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