Robert Chesshyre
Articles by robert chesshyre
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Books
School for scandal
- 26 May 2003
Ahead of the Class: how an aspiring headmistress gave children back their future
Marie Stubbs John Murray, 260pp, £16.99
ISBN 0719563356
Politics
"Do you mean to say that you are all in debt?"
- 17 December 2001
Robert Chesshyre on the late David Astor, the Observer editor who asked his staff what a mortgage was
Politics
Why Knacker has to wake up
- 25 June 2001
They won't go out except in pairs and they take a day off with the merest sniffle. Robert Chesshyre on Blunkett's mission to end Spanish practices in the police
Politics
Where even the milk float has armour
- 11 December 2000
It needed a murder to get anybody interested in the Peckham estate
Politics
The town that has no middle class
- 13 November 2000
In West Bromwich, where a by-election is due this month, Robert Chesshyrefinds that smokestacks still smoke and metal is still bashed
Politics
And is there honey by the Tees?
- 03 July 2000
Ravaged by manufacturing decline, infuriated by southern ignorance, the north still feels like another country. Robert Chesshyre reports
Society
The New Statesman Profile - The British bobby
- 01 May 2000
Authoritative and avuncular, he was a symbol of a society at ease with itself - and the public can't get enough of him. The British bobby profiled
