News Reports Archive January 2009
We Once Welcomed Workers From All Over the Empire
How the Lobby Pack Missed the Biggest Prey
Protectionism is a Dangerous Road to Walk - Remember the Thirties
Pendennis: The Observer Diary
It is Now Time to Embrace Gm Technology
Great Art That Came Without Regrets
Why Everybody Wants to Keep the Lords
Hey, Fat Boy, It's Your Turn in the Spotlight Now
Mr Brown, It's Time to Come Down From the Mountain
Vote Now for Harry's New Squeeze
Author, Author: Looking for Female Role Models in Nineteenth Century Novels
This Week
Face to Faith
Students Have Been Sold a Lie
Ninny Book of Booze
It's Canny, But Fashion Firms Will Rest Easy
Lloyds Fat Cats Still Trying to Get at the Cream
National Dance Awards Strike the Right Balance
This Lobbying Scandal Confirms It. The Dying Days of Labour Are Upon Us
You Don't Need Nintendo to Keep Your Marbles. Try Reading, Take Up Darts or Tinkle Away at the Piano
Sleaze Rouses the Snoozers
Necks on the Line Time for Agius and Varley
Never Mind the Sex Pistols - Here's Bbcc4
Regions: Too Little Too Late for Itv
Specieswatch: Great Grey Shrike
Alas, That's the End of Foot in Mouth Disease
Don't You Just Love Those Marketing Men?
Cheap Laughs, Idle Chatter: How the Culture Industries Failed
Mexican Rides to Rescue of America's Greatest Paper
The Return of Ken Clarke Reveals the Tory Leader's Fears
OK, Here's My Definition of Paternity Fraud
Jonathan Was Great. Shame About Tom
Let's Hear It for Mad Monarchy
Ulrika Licking a Fish is Not My Idea of Public Service Tv
Policy Shock Facing Drivers Found 'at Fault' in Accident
At Last Some Good News: Goodbye (almost) to Overpriced, Ineffectual Single-premium Ppi
Bankers Lead Way Through the Trap Door
Mind Your Language: Return of Ross Poses New Editing Problem
Author, Author: The Newspaper Within the Newspaper
Sir Fred, Just Say Sorry
Not All of Finance is in Ruins. Bonus Culture is Doing Fine
Some Say It's Poverty Porn - But Not Many
The String Theory of Landfill
Why Are People Not Throwing Up Their Hands in Horror at an Ex-kgb Agent Buying a British Paper?
Burns is Alive and Kicking, 250 Years After His Birth
Why Real-person Performances Don't Impress Me
Europe Must Sharpen Its Act in the Race for Overseas Talent
Radio Review
Comeback Ken Brings Cheer to Pmqs
The Imp Could Become The Godfather of Our Generation
Can the Financial Crisis Be Explained With a Diagram? Because the Experts Are Making No Sense at All
Film Picks Paul Howlett
At Last, I Think I Know Why So Many Women Over 40 Are Experiencing a 'man Shortage'
Smoke-signal Democracy
Ex-offenders Should Be Our Secret Weapon, Not Outcasts
Sidelines
Watch This
Radio Head
Pick of the Day
We Must Not Get Caught in the Spiral of Deflation
Levelling Down Encourages Challengers to Travel Hopefully
MLK's Message: We Are One
Opinion: Why Channel 4's Future is Tied to 'broadband for All'
Let Them Eat Cake. But First, Bark a Calorie Count Into Their Ears Till Their Heads Ring With Shame
My Champagne Moments With Wicked, Loving, Lovely John
A Nightmare Banks Can't Shake Off
Ah, Prince Harry ... He Just Loves to Live in the Dark Ages
Let's Face It, After 40 You're Past It
Pendennis: The Observer Diary
Top Stores Call Them 'budget Food Lines'. I Say They Are a Disgrace
It's Not Just Men Who Feel Pain and Shame When Jobs Go
Spreadsheets Serve As Weapons of Mass Cost Destruction
Angst is Out As the Girls Take Over
Pushy Parents Are Setting the Best Example
It's Not the Poor the Middle Class Really Fear
Get Happy - a Farewell to Pessimism
The Beauty Industry is at It Again ... It's Not a Pretty Sight
'The Elegance of Old Age Has Now Been Forgotten'
Piles of Woe - and the Dalai Lama
Last Night's Tv
How to Change Unjust Deserts
The Homeworker
TV Dinners
ANC Tactics Bring Shades of Zimbabwe to South Africa
This Muslim Life
Air Rage and Out-raging
Airbus Tries to Spread Its Wings
Politics? Awards? These Days Everything is About the Frocks
Sexual Healing
Cameron and Brown's Entirely Mad Scenario
A Shared It System: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
TV Matters
Ask Leo
The Change We Need for Greater Diversity
No Substitute for Experience
Short-selling Sermons As God Takes on Mammon
Newton and Einstein May Have Been Autistic. But is Their Genius an Argument Against a Screening Test?
Is £10,000 Enough to Keep Me at This School? In a Word, No
A Glitz-free Detroit Motor Show? Some Carmakers Didn't Get the Memo
Are Art Schools Giving Their Students Unrealistic Expectations?
Cameron's Baby of Doom
If I Had Young Children, I'd Leap at a Child-tracking Device. Or Would I? It's a Neurotic's Worst Nightmare
Why Jobs on the Bench Are Losing Their Lustre
Lock Up Your Daughters - I'm Looking for a Wife
The Day the Bbc's Ship Came in
Close Encounters of the Redtop Tabloid Kind
You Can Tell a Lot About a Tyrant From His Bedside Reading
New Era? It's All Huff and Puff
Loth As I Am to Give Joan Bakewell a Kicking ...
Rachida - This Was an Act of Weakness, Not Strength
You Can't Ban Boredom... It's a Life Skill
Crisis Creates Threat of New Lost Generation
Author, Author: Literature and Politics
How the Display Cabinet Killed Wedgwood
On Film: Films for People Who Don't Really Like Films
I Have No Enthusiasm for Children's Television or Children's Books. They're Seriously Witless
If People in Britain Really Want to Avoid the Sack, They Should Try Phoning in Sick Less Often
Radio Review
England Falter Again on Road to the Light at the End of the Ashes Tunnel
A Solipsistic Utopia Will Suit Players of Every Level
Sarko's Green Shoots Leave French Auto Industry in Optimistic Mood
Brian Paddick: Equality in the Police Has Improved
So, Teachers Are Boring. But is That the Real Reason Pupils Leave School Unable to Add or Subtract?
Cable Girl
Ignoring Bad News is Politically Naive
All Brain and No Trousers
It's a Miracle That Only One in 10 Young People Are Depressed. There's a Lot to Be Miserable About Now
Sudan President's Main Rival in Talks With Bush
Survive 2009 By Learning to Love and Share. Why Not Start By Frolicking in a Bubble Bath With a Neighbour?
Writ Large: Let's Stop Fighting Over the Figures in 2009
My Highlight of 2008? Hooking Up With the Scary and Unstoppable Free Theatre of Belarus
Cameron Plans to Transform Britain and Has What It Takes
This New Deal is a Far Greater Gamble Than You Might Think
Don't Be a Dumbbell - the Gym Can Wait
Resolution Number Three: Leave Him
After Beavers and Wolves, Why Not Bring Back the Black Rat?
Don't Be Fooled By the 'little' Woman
Private Equity Takes a Hit at Debt-laden Debenhams
Regionals Face Far More Than a Local Difficulty
This Search for Tourists Has Become Witless
A Shield That Brings Danger
Who's the Daddy?
'If You Told Me I Was Spending £8,000 a Year on Cat Food, I Would Believe You'
Simon Hoggart's Week: Rising to the Challenge
TV Dinners
Now We're Told Too Much Thinking Can Make Us Fat. This Year, We Must Not Let Bad News Get Us Down
Finding the Wealth in Health: Ge Man With a Un Diplomat's Agenda
What Makes World Leaders Think George Bush Loves Nut Pastries, Reads Poetry and Plays the Harp?
How Many Lords Does It Take to See a Light?
Mystery of the Laughing Pm
Britain Can Build Its Way Out of Recession
Learning Difficulties: Urgently Needed, Two Major Inquiries
Rheumy-eyed Critics Don't Flog Souvenirs
When Obama Tells a Story, We Listen
Obama's Got a Foreign Team of Big Names - With Egos to Match
Yes It's Bad, But at Long Last the Government is Getting It Right
Simon Hoggart's Week: Down at Heel in Cuba
Obama Inauguration: A New Tone. No More Fake Optimism for the People
Unemployment Will Not Solve Itself
Another Fine Mess - or Some Terrible Dream?
Is It All That Surprising That Tesco Employees Posted Offensive Remarks About Customers on Facebook?
Magical Spell That Will Open a New American Era
Unless We Are Decisive Britain Faces Bankruptcy
The Era of the True Art Collector Has Returned
Nixon's Long Shadow
Face to Faith
Rooney's Early Exit Exposes Forward Flaws in United
Laptops, Not Mobile Phones, Are the Means to Liberate the Developing World
Why the Silence Over Attacks on Israeli Campuses?
The Labour Market Isn't Working
Three Little Words That the Prime Minister Can Never Say
Recycling? It's a Waste of Time
How Pietersen Seized the Media Initiative Ahead of the Ecb
Spending is No Remedy for Mental Health Credit Crisis
In This Power Clash Pietersen Has the Bigger Artillery
Obama is Losing a Battle He Doesn't Know He's in
Barack Obama is Losing a Battle He Doesn't Know He's in
It's a Little Early to Sanctify Steven Gerrard
As Its Troops March In, Again Israel Looks to Its Military Past