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Steven Baxter

Patrolling the murkier waters of the mainstream media

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Newspapers
The Kate Middleton topless photos are the grossest invasion of privacy
14 September 2012

If you buy into the worst kind of paparazzi antics, you are throwing away your own privacy too.

Society
We mustn't over-interpret suicide statistics - every one is an individual tragedy
12 September 2012

New government figures show middle-aged men are at greatest risk of suicide.

Sport
Were the fake football agent's transfer rumours any more flaky than the usual ones?
29 August 2012

FootballAgent49 claims to have fooled the Mail, Guardian and the Mirror.

Digital
Yes, Giles Coren is absurdly thin-skinned, but aren't most writers?
28 August 2012

The restaurant critic's Twitter "flounce" is typical - writers are just terribly insecure people.

Newspapers
Readers are the real reason British papers won't publish the naked Prince Harry photos
22 August 2012

The stock of the royal family is at such a high that newspapers fear a reader backlash more than the regulators.

Education
A Level results and leaping Home Counties teenagers
16 August 2012

It's a comforting newspaper staple, but surely all a bit old hat now?

Sport
"The death of competitive sports" is the right's favourite Straw Bogeyman
08 August 2012

There's nothing wrong with having fun while getting fit, as this picture of David Cameron playing Badminton demonstrates.

Digital
Do bloggers need a "kitemark" to gain their readers' trust?
03 August 2012

Standards and boundaries could be helpful.

Steven Baxter
The Olympic opening ceremony shows why lefties should embrace pageantry
28 July 2012

The NHS, the Windrush - this was a Britain to make us proud.

Broadcast
Is Radio 4 too middle class?
26 July 2012

The station's voices are most likely to be drawn from selective and private schools, white, middle aged and male. Does that matter, though?

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