Mary Riddell

Politics

Eating people is wrong

• 26 March 1999

"The taboo against cannibalism is the strongest we have - but even that needs to be looked at". Richard Dawkins interviewed

Society

English women marry gay men because they are not threatening as husbands and are great as friends

• 05 February 1999

Society

If Jack Straw needs further instruction on how adoption affects mother and son, Clare Short might be happy to oblige

• 29 January 1999

Society

We care about two sweet, unabused little girls, but the thousands rotting in care homes hardly get a thought

• 22 January 1999

Society

If you find it hard to stop smoking, just think of British American Tobacco's enormous profits

• 15 January 1999

Society

1999 doesn't count: we must think about the millennium now - but watch out for a King of Terror from the sky

• 01 January 1999

Society

This has been a year of noisy neighbours, nosy neighbours and dirty herberts

• 18 December 1998

Politics

The New Statesman Interview - David Attenborough

• 18 December 1998

He is a "boring left-wing liberal" who despairs of standards at the BBC and dares tease Peter Mandelson

Society

Just because the idea of cloning provokes outrage doesn't mean it should be banned

• 11 December 1998

Society

Statisticians tell us that we're all middle class now - but that doesn't stop poorer people dying younger

• 04 December 1998