News Reports Archive March 2009
MPs' Expenses and Pessimism
Lay Off the Catchphrase. It's Fandabidozi!
Russell Crowe: Poet of Our Times?
It is Disgraceful That Prisoners Are Still Denied the Vote. So Why is the Government Still Hesitating?
Horne and Corden: is This the End?
Last Night's Tv: All The Small Things
The Law Should Stand Up for Prisoners Too
Authors Have Lost the Plot in Kindle Battle
How Do We Rid Ourselves of the Awful Images Brought on By Mr Jacqui Smith? Try This ...
Dressing Up the News in the Lords
Why Point the Finger at Home-educators?
Is Oxbridge the Be-all and End-all?
Miss Great Britain is Retro and Ironic, They Claim. But Misogyny With Irony is Still Misogyny
Judicial Misgivings, Trivial and Not
When Evil is a Question of Bias
For Richie or for Poorer?
Paxo is Only Following in Churchill's Footsteps
Who Would You Rather Trust - the Bbc or a Blogger?
It's Easy to Sneer, But This G20 Summit Will Make a Difference
How Very Apt is Periapt These Days
Hot Dogs Made From Cats? That's Tasty
Cuddly Queen of the Breakfast Sofa
When Poetry Gets Maximum Exposure
Let Chaucer Put a Spring in Your Step
You Can Make Hope Out of Folding Papers
New Labour's Dream is a Surveillance State Nightmare
The Lives of These Women is Where the Crunch Bites Deepest
Recession, Not Prices, is the Real Worry
Last Night's Tv: Dogs of War - and Yachting
A Sense of the Inevitable, 30 Years on
Warning: Media Reports on Suicide Can Be Fatal
It Should Be the Environment and the Economy, Stupid
Face to Faith
How Suffering Became a Public Act
Yesterday's Riot, Today's Irritation
Anti-natal
Diary
How Do Pubs Know We Don't Want Small Wine Glasses When They Don't Offer Them?
Skiwatch
A Grand Bargain for Global Capital
'King of the World!' The Apprentice and Sir Alan Do Austerity
Good Ideas, But You're Out of Time
TV Matters
Fern, How Could You Abandon This Morning?
Clinging to the Anchor
Get Rid of Tax Havens, By All Means. But It is Disingenuous of Brown to Claim They're Relevant to Our Current Crisis
David Cameron and George Osborne Face High-wire Trilemma
Community Finance Could Help Kickstart Lending
Councils Offer a Safe House Building Option
It May Be 20 Years Since She Was Last on Tv, But Alexis Carrington Remains My Ultimate Role Model
Matters of Life or Death Are a Trial for Judges
If the Bbc Works, Don't Fix It
Box-office Haye Eager to Answer the Klitschko Question
Even the Whistleblowers Have Been Silenced
Get Off That Sofa and Start an Argument
The Bbc Has Become the Weakest Link in Children's Tv
The Long Party is Over for the Public Sector, Whoever Wins
How Dare They Do This to My Liverpool
Honestly, Google, I Was Only Out to Lunch
Talk About Cock-ups. These Are Gems
We Don't Need Tragedies Spiced Up for Us
Language Limbers Up on Queasy Street
Is Google Committing Theft - or Ushering in a Bright New Age?
At Last, Wodehouse and Twain Meet
Channel 6 - the Tv Station That Knows Where You Live
Chips Down for Casino Banks
Italian Lessons
Barclays Undergoes Another Taxing Day
Simon Hoggart's Week: Mosquito Net Plea Misses the Point
Ageism is Everywhere. We Can't Even Count on Nhs Doctors to Be Kind to Us When We Get Old
Courts, Like Theatres, Deliver Drama But Also Great Pretence
Here Today, Gone to Marrow
Let's Break Down Those Ugly Doors
Lost Your Job? The Prime Minister Feels Your Pain
Bad News for Labour, Just When Tories Admit Nhs is Getting Better
How I Got My Genes Deleted
Better Than The Wire?
Another Day, Another Shakespeare Discovery
The Celebrity Cult of Spongebob
Ministers Delay Awkward Decision on Increasing Tuition Fees
Diary
The Case of the Great Goodwino
Protect the Child - and the Funding
It's No Mystery Why Lawyers Are Happy to Defend Men the Public Regard As Monsters. It's Called a Fair Trial
The Heartbreaking Tale of Kiev's Singing Mayor
An Ambitious Public Housing Programme
Elected Works Councils in All Big Firms
Make the 'third Age' a Top Priority
Expand the Education Workforce
Introduce a Wealth Tax
Cap Mps' and Ministers' Pay
Bring in Proportional Representation
Scrap Id Cards
Of Course Constantly Praising Children is Bad for Them. Let's Get Those Lovely Red Marker Pens Out Again
Labour Still Running Into Trouble Over Immigration
What I See is Mere Activity Masquerading As Learning
Diversity in the Judiciary: Still a Case to Answer
A Plan With Puppy Love
Playwrights Are More Important Than Politicians. So Why Do Powerful People Mesmerise Me?
Another View
A 35% Pay Cut - But Duncan Will Still Earn More Than Last Year
6 Music - More Pop'n'prattle Than Rock'n'roll
The Golden Age of Liberty is Now
The Troubles Are Past But That Doesn't Keep the Fear at Bay Now
Look No Further Than Inequality for the Source of All Our Ills
David Cameron Needs More Than a Clique of Four to Succeed
Why 'rape-lite' Myths Fill Us With Dread
Why the World's Most Powerful Computer May Be Useless
After Sir Tony, Have the Indies Got a Safety Net?
Cult of the Equity: It's Down But Not Yet Out
All Aboard the Big Bard Bus to Oxford
Is This Shakespeare We See Before Us? And Does It Matter?
It's Surely Time to Bring Huxley to Book
No One is Doing It for the Kids
A Surefire Hit: Revenge of the Parents
Red Riding Leads Us Up the Garden Path
Medical Scumbag's Masterclass in Fraud
You Can't Give a Child Booze!
The Recession Has Turned Westfield Shopping Centre Into a Peaceful Monument to Past Consumerism
Still Painful, But Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
Kinnock Mines Rich Seam of Bile
Relax, Andy. Real Beer at the Rovers Return Won't Kill Us
What If the Internet Was As Safe As Planes, Not Cars?
When Coping With Loss Beats Winning Petty Points
The Government's Plan to Allow People to Comment on Public Services Online is Lazy and Ill-considered
After the Witch-hunt, a Profession in Tatters
Good King Google
Diary
War of Words Along Scotland's Rocky Road to Self-determination
A Republican Target
Amid Terrible Deeds, Words Bring Hope
Apparently 65% of Us Have Lied About Reading the Great Works of Literature. We Needn't Have Bothered
Why Simenon's Plot Device Had to Go
The Biggest Mistake of the Past 10 Years? Too Much Stuff
Equality? You'll Have to Wait Until 2082
This is Not Youthful Rebellion. We See the Catastrophe Ahead
Bring on the Hard Times?
It's Basic. We Simply Need More Houses
From Big Hair to Bespoke Horror
Your Wallet is Going to Be Busy Enough Without Hsbc
End Bulks and See What's a Dead Giveaway
Want to Hurt Sir Fred? Well, Take Away That Knighthood
Don't Talk to Me About Teen Spirit
Since When Did Such Fools Run Amok at Oxford?
Twitter, Tony Benn and Other Bio-hazards
Author Author: Persons From Porlock
Face to Faith
Metaphorically Speaking, Pepsi's Gibberish is Hard to Swallow
Publish and Be Damned
Harriet Off the Hook
Skiwatch
Anti-natal
This Muslim Life
By Writing Publicly About Her Son's Drug Problem, Julie Myerson Demonstrates Her Own Addiction
The Joy of Box Sets
Hats Off to the Dapper Prince
Local Councils Feel the Pinch
A Labour-made Crisis
Don't Blame Amateur Keepers for Declining Bees
Pick of the Day
Harman's Unhappy Hour
Where Were the Gags, Gordon?
A Month in Ambridge
Age Discrimination Laws Could Backfire on Us If They End Up Keeping Young People Out of Work
Thrown to the Wolves
Time for High Earners to Set an Example
In Defence of the First Lady's Right to Bare Arms
A Country Staring Disaster in the Face
Conrad Black's 'convivial' Time in a Us Prison
A £5 Reward Handout From the Halifax? No Thanks - How Desperate Do They Think We Are?
Do Career-changers Make Good Teachers?
Lecturers Who (used To) Lunch
The Winnowing Out of Happiness
An Olympic Event in Madness
Diary
The Social Mixer in Our Washbasin
Brown and Obama May Fail in Afghanistan, But They Cannot Give Up
Gordon Brown - More Piggy in the Middle Than Global Giant
Switch off Lights on Earth Hour
Tony Blair's People's Proletarian
Six-month Teacher Training is Just Wrong
Obama Should Beware the Growing Anger in America
Addiction is a Sickness, and So is Criminalising Your Child
Full Disclosure on the Iraq War
If Videogames Are to Become As Popular As Tv They Need to Exploit Our Humblest Fantasies
China 'worried' About Safety of Us Assets
Printing Money is the Right Way to Get Us Out of This Mess
Grrrl Power