News Articles July 2002



A splishy-splashy water feature: inoffensive and forgettable

Alexis Petridis: Fool Britannia

Libby Brooks: We're All After a Quick Fix

Right Ruling, Wrong Season

Conservatives Do Have Friends

Austin Powers in Goldmember a Hit

John Kampfner: Frit on the home front

Puttnam is Right to Want Broadcasting to Stay British

Hugo Young: So, Alan Duncan is out. Just like his vacuous party

Raekha Prasad: Toddlers behind the razor wire

Shopping Till They Drop

Tristram Hunt: Freedom of the city

Matters of life and death

Hard Rules Will Shatter a Fragile Peace

It's Time for Black Mps to Form Their Own Caucus

Larry Elliot: Stop the Recycled Peanuts

The old ones are the good ones

Richard Grainger: Chase away the grey clouds

The Rowan I knew

Gareth Davies and Graham Johnson: 'I run the busiest prison in the UK'

Chris Smith: Challenges for the man from Ofcom

Timothy Garton Ash: The price of Parsley

Jane Shaw: Apostle of humility

The Joys of the Kineoptikon

MPs stream out as last fortnight's news filters in

Rod Liddle: Why do we give money to corrupt states?

Hugo Young: A trumpet blast from Lambeth

This cult of intrusion and bullying is cheapening us all

David Mepham: We've given in to the arms lobby

A Triumph of Democracy

Maria Misra: Heart of smugness

Stephen Gardiner: Home truths

An E for the Exam Factory

Luke Harding: Email From New Delhi

View From the Sidelines

Only the Unions Can Save Labour

It's Time for Special K Factor

A Stranger in a Strange Land

Julie Burchill: For the hell of it

Tartan Rugs and M&s Snacks - the Joy of the Great Outdoors

Shane Watson: Promises, promises

Matt Seaton: Could Do Better

From the Bottom Up

Stickers and shifters

Hugo Young: Blunkett may be a listener, but he's certainly no liberal

Seumas Milne: At last the union tide has turned

No Question, Scrap Pmqs

Ira Apology - a Trick or Sincere Regret?

Savaged by a feather duster

Hilary Cottam: In the nick of time

The sordid truth behind an arms deal

Charlotte Denny: Old Mcdonald Had a Subsidy

A Plight at the Opera

Labour Ought to Dish Out Ideology Along With the Cash

Nation in Bondage

This strange silence from the left

Anne Karpf: Letter bomb

Ian Black: Inside Europe

Master of the Media

What a load of ...

Julie Burchill: Rule of dumb

Alexander Chancellor: Heads we win

We Wouldn't Put Mice Through This

Diane Abbott: Labour's acid test

Peter Lilley: Hash on the high street

Nicholas Serota: Renaissance or ruin

Plugging the Leaks in a Listing Ship

This Sense of Irresistible Us Superiority is Overblown

A Party of Lost Leaders

Robert Winston: Blaming IVF doctors alone is wrong

Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Paper tigers

Old Labour's Last Hurrah in Memory of Barbara

Playing Their Cards Wrong

The Council Strike is Just

Hugo Young: The church must grow up and choose its own leaders

Jane Morris: Bones of contention

David Chandler: Bosnia's new colonial governor

Melissa Benn: Institutionalised inequality

Gwyn Topham: Email From Kitulgala

Livingstone Must Serve His Sentence

Insecurity in Numbers

I know what I mean, but don't necessarily say it right

Edmond Warner: There are just not enough good investors to go round

Off with her head

Robin Blackburn: Happy retirement

Women on the Cutting Room Floor

MPs grow weary of smirk signals

Colin Mayer: No quick fix for fraud and corruption

Hugo Young: 'Anti-American' has become a thought-killing smear

Corporate corruption

Transformation of Exeter City Centre

From the apoplectic to the narcoleptic

Of course all white people are racist

Universal Children's Centres Could Be a Labour Beacon

America's Financial Scandals Won't Bury the Us Model

A good man in Africa - bit of a problem back home

Matthew Engel: Piling on the agony

Brian Paddick: My drugs policy is working

Teacher Abuse

Faisal Bodi: Muslims got Cantle. What they needed was Scarman

Melissa Benn: London Wall

Ian Mayes: Some of My Best Friends

Ian Black: Inside Europe

Read My Lips: There Will Be Selection

How Will Our Royals Reach the End of Their Line?

All That is Left is Power

Hugo Young: Blair is jumping the gun in backing Bush's war on logic

Britney Spears Behaving Badly

Bruce Springsteen: The Boss is Back

Liza Minelli and David Gest: Not Another Celeb-Reality TV Show

Rod Liddle: Innocent until proven racist

Liz Mcgregor: Life Chances

War on Iran is the New Nightmare

Beware the Silly Season

Jason Cowley: At home with Hitler

Rory Mccarthy: By Order of the General

Menzies Campbell: There should be no war in Iraq without more jaw-jaw

Wreckers of the Landscape

Capitalism's cheatin' heart

Diana, the star that time forgot

John Jones: Toothless in Gaza

Martin Wainwright: Our debt to Islam

The suicide bombers who play into Sharon's hands

Hugo Young: The Interbrew wrangle gives succour to the crooks

John Yudkin: How we can reduce the cost of living

Odd Couple: Janet Jackson & Justin Timberlake

Ben Affleck & J. Lo?

Mystikal’s Rape Charges

Sex and the City and a Baby

How Bush Could Lose

Mark Tran: Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself

Free markets have failed a continent

Hugo Young: Blair's anti-union hardness looks increasingly out of date

Hans von Sponeck: Go on, call Bush's bluff

Pankaj Mishra: These murders take their toll on Kashmiri tolerance

Burhan Wazir: Militants Seek Muslim-free India

Software for tough guys

This Time Don't Blame It on Rio

Rory Carroll: Italy's Anti-globalisation Movement is Still No Match for Berlusconi

Justice delayed

Bill Goodwin: Journalists still get a raw deal in court

Owen Bowcott: Homeless and Friendless

What Spain Could Teach Us About Island Grabbing

Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli’s Turbulent Year

The Sopranos Return

Reality Bites for Winona Ryder

Halle Berry’s Rocky Love History

Feeding frenzies

Ian Buruma: Why we must share America's dirty work

Stephen Pollard: Brown must stop throwing money at state monopolies

Analysis: Arms and the Warlords

On the Edge of a Precipice

Hilary Rose and Steven Rose: Why We Launched the Boycott of Israeli Institutions

My Five Tests for the Euro

Larry Elliot: Germany Should Regard Brown As Flexible Friend

The Kurdish Jihadis

Jason Burke and Ed Vuilliamy: Crisis Over Over Iraq

It's bedlam for Big Brother inmates

Time to get unbundled for penetration

Tories in a blur of critical crotch massage

Hugo Young: We need to talk about the war on Iraq before it begins

Laura Marcus: Designer stress

Timothy Garton Ash: Beyond Mandalay

From The Osbournes to The Anna Nicole Show

David Hasselhoff Battles Alcoholism

Michael Jackson Attacks Sony

Julia’s Latest Romance Ends in Marriage

Stuart Jeffries: FilmFour's blurred vision

Firing on Our Friends

Matthew Engel: The Iraqi mutiny

Jenn Clamen: Sex in the city

At the End of the Day, They Were Clutching at Balls

The cracks begin to show

Regina Rabinovich: Africa's economic problems have a medical solution

Open Door: The Problems of Plagiarism

Premature Adulation

Andrew Rawnsley: Adolf Hitler Would Hate the Euro

Shlomi Segall: Why I won't serve Sharon

Stuart Jeffries: Big Brother Bullies Little Sister

Peacekeeping is No Longer About Helping 'them' But 'us'

Time to Hear Kashmir's Cry

Bush's War is the New Great Game

Michael Quinlan and Lewis Dunn: The next big threat will be biological

Rod Liddle: Global advice from pop stars? No thanks

Hugo Young: We can't allow US tantrums to scupper global justice

Mohammed Dahlan: We'll choose our leaders

The Number is Up for Wall Street