News Articles December 2004



This Can't Go on Forever - So It Won't

We Now Need the Inspiration Only Politicians Can Give

Why This Year Has Taught Me to Be More of a Cynic

The Cruellest Sport

A Scandal of Secrecy and Profligacy

The Game That Lost Its Glory

Another Glorious Year at the Top

Labour Should Ignore the Media, Not Appease Them

The Radical Who is Leading a New English Revolution

The Kids Are All Right

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Watch With Your Eyes Shut

Outflanking Your Enemy is a Bad Habit

Paralysed By Panic

The Readers' Editor on ... Reports That Are Fundamentally Flawed

Take Two: John Stern and Stephen Moss Discuss Televised Cricket

Despite This Deal, the Road Ahead Remains Rocky Indeed

The Poverty Monologues

A Ruse By Any Other Name

Britain: a Rough Guide

Goodbye to Old Ghosts

Different Targets, Same Tactics

A Simple Man Seduced By Scoundrels

I May Be in Bad Company, But This Law Will Not Work

It's a Time for Giving

Hovering in Mid Air

World Briefing: Simon Tisdall

How Blunkett's Biographer Brought Him Down to Earth

Britain is Conniving in Torture

A Deadly Reversal in Congo

We Need Humility, Not Hubris

Two to the Power of 2 Million

The Readers' Editor on Righting Wrongs at the Bbc and Elsewhere

If Danny Williams Becomes World Champion Tonight, Will Anyone Care?

This is About Real Victims

Where Race Meets Gender

World Briefing 12/9/2004

Know Your Cod and Plaice

Just Because It's a Tory Idea Doesn't Mean It's Wrong

Freud Would Have Loved Paisley and the Ira

The Ghost of Verdi

Britain Should Protect Sex Trafficking Victims

The Naked Kleptocracy That Leads Britain's Private Sector

Sperm Does Not a Father Make

The Us Has to Give a Damn About Dialogue With Britain

Why I'm a Wolf Man

Matthew Tempest: E-mail

The Bodging of the Bbc

The Readers' Editor the Guardian's Use of English

David Blunkett Flouting the First Rule of Politics

Home Office Reforms

You Call This Liberation

This Food Racket Just Can't Go on

Not a Good Way to Start a Democracy

Charity That Begins at Home Does Not Have to End There

A State of Chaos

A Terrible Warning Not to Do Nothing

James the First

How Can Religious People Explain Something Like This?

World Watch

A Grisly Christmas Tale

The Blairite Ultras Are at the Door

The Kremlin's Dr Jekyll

Shallow Logic and Illegal Detention

The Limits of Liberalism

Why Blair's Trip Will Not Succeed

America's War on Itself

France's Little Iraq

We Need a Tiger in Our Tank

A Tree is Not Just for Christmas

Talking With Tigers

World Briefing: Tactical Bush Puts His War With Annan on Hold ... for Now

Passion in Parentheses

Behind the Black Watch

Romania's Slow-burn Revolution Sends Signal Across Europe's Hinterland

The Wax Terrorist

World Watch

Bush's New Administration Will Be Filled With Mediocrities

Medals of Dishonour

Alexander Was, After All, Defeated

On the Road to Fairford

Euthanasia Should Be Legal

Bush's New Head of Homeland Security is Perfect for the Job

History After Lights Out

Europe to Review China Arms Ban

Blair's Kind of Respect

It's Not Too Late, Even for Tony Blair

We Need to Accept That Ukraine is Multi-ethnic

In France They Know How to Turn Fantasy Into Reality

Resentment of New Labour is Fuelling the David-and-kimberly Scandal

The Chancellor's Words Are Laden With Private Meaning

Tally-ho, Gung Ho