News Reports Archive July 2009
Argument is About Capitalism, Not Food
Ryan Reynolds
TV Matters: The Apprentice, Dragons' Den
Now the Iraq Inquiry Has Bite, It Will Hound Gordon Brown to the Polls
Corby Council Found Liable in Toxic Waste Contamination Ruling
Good Work, Stelios. Now Please Return to Your Seat
Are We on the Verge of a Decent Game-inspired Film?
Virtual Worlds Are Getting a Second Life
The Smartbook Has Been Waiting 28 Years to Be the Next Best Thing
From Shlock to Sleaze: Why You Never Want to Fall Victim to a Celebrity's Chat-up Line
Rally Runs Out of Road
Sleek and Super-fast: London's New Javelin Trains Are a Design Triumph
Chris Anderson's Free Adds Much to The Long Tail, But Falls Short
Commenting is Off
The Professions Really Must Take Off the Blinkers
Harman Must Stick to the Script, or Risk Ruining the Pm's Holidays
Another View on Bbc4's How to Be a Composer
Calling a Lawyer's Client a Customer is Plainly Wrong
Jokes Are Funny. Picking Them Apart Isn't. Witness My Clown Autopsy
A Literary Festival That is Truly in Peak Condition
Liverpool Crown Court, 23 July
Happy Holidays With Shandy and Dr Slop
The Original Big Brother is Watching You on Amazon Kindle
Press Referee Needs to Show Some Red Cards
Come Back Arlene Phillips. But Cut Out the Gags
The Readers' Editor on … the Demise of the Observer's Tv Guide
At Last, Brown is Getting It Right. His Tragedy is That No One Can See It
The Truth is Rarely So Black and White
Still Living at Home at 40? Shame on You
How Surveyors Have Failed Us
Real Concerns
Onwards and Endlessly Upwards
My Eye Op: First Hunger, Then Fear
Can We Drop the Stick-insect Look in Period Films Please?
FSA and Turner Need to Cap Barclays Ambitions
TV Matters: Harold Pinter and Simon Gray on Bbc4
Chastened Politicians Are Opting for a Bucket-and-spade Holiday
Politics is a Cruel Business
Are Local Solutions the Future for Government It?
Politics Was a Step Down for Darzi
Tolpuddle Martyrs in Concert
Classics of Everyday Design No 63: The Leica M6
The Post's Dinner of Distinction Leaves a Bad Taste
Judge Rocks the Boat Over Raft of Hasty Laws
Cricket: Less a Game, More a Metaphor for a Way of Life
Try Picking on Someone Your Own Size, Brüno
Apple Hands Palm a Problem and Gets Slapped By Microsoft
Behind Our Ken's Smile Lies the Knowledge That Power Will Come in a Poisoned Chalice
Stand By for Bloodshed in West London
So That'll Be a 'no' Then, Mr James
Foodie Boy
More Top Jobs for Northerners? Whoever Next? Pagans, Actually
Even Mathematicians Run Scared of Our Libel Laws Now
The Suburbs Are Derided By Snobs, Yet They Offer Hope for Our Future
Labour May Never, Ever Win Power on Its Own Again
A Toxic Culture of Suspicion is Souring Our Children's Lives
In Praise of Saving (and Battered Chests Full of Gold Coins)
'I Stared at Elaine Paige's Forehead As If It Were Some Long-lost Treasure Map'
Home Office Research So Feeble Someone Ought to Be Locked Up
Safety Inspectors Would Ground This Scheme
Diary
The Human Memory Stick Shows a Capacity for Fiction
Help Our Boys in Helmand By Chipping in for Choppers
As One Labour Goat Leaves Another is Lured
Gmtv
What I Think About Sir Edward Downes' Decision to 'die With Dignity'
Debts Throw Baa's Fortunes Into a Tailspin
How 50 Microseconds Could Change the World
And the Big Bad Wolf is …
Young Offenders: Unequal Race Against Doing Time for Kids Like Shaun
Roll Up to Join the Debate That Never Died
Madoff Got Away With It for So Long Because No One Understands Finance
Bankers' Rewards More Shocking Than Ever
IDS's Family Report Proves There Are Second Acts in Political Lives
Why Fight for High Ground?
Must Modern Barristers Be So Very Boring?
The Very Fabric of Society is Breaking Down Around Us. What the Hell is There Left to Believe In?
My Week: Hardeep Singh Kohli
Now Google Parks Its Tanks Right Outside Microsoft's Gates
It's Bad... But the Watchdog Has Got the Message
A Plea to Sir David: Save Our Schools, Jobs and Pensions From Britain's Timid Investors
Behind the Scenes at the National Gallery
Granta Denies Its Anglo-american Heritage at Its Peril
Stop Calling Us Curvy and Bring Back the F-word
Leicester Square, London, 7 July
Our Laboratories and Colleges Ought to Define Britain, Not Our Greed
Cameron's Spinner is Making the Wrong Sort of Headlines
It's Not Natural But It's Still Wonderful
Eternal Youth is an Ugly Obsession
A Plague on Hirst's Latest Art Concept
Author, Author: Which Bits of English History Are My History?
Revenge May Not Be So Sweet After All
The Subtext of the University Brochure
Are We Addicted to Monetary Stimulants?
Anti-natal
The Dignified Silence of Jordan and Pete
It Was a Big Week in the Death of Jacko. And Then His Brain Went Missing
Why Authors Such As Mishima Are a Godsend to Screenwriters
The Absolute Right to Unfettered Free Speech in Parliament
Another View on Walking In My Mind
The Issue is the Political Drift Not the Political Rift
A Rabble Rouser's Plea for Crusts
Radio 4 on the Financial Crisis
The Strange Case of Mrs Slocombe's Vanishing Pussy
Diary
Taking an Axe to Public Spending the Canadian Way
No One at the 10 Years Younger Live Event Expected Any of These Products to Work - So Why Be There?
Big on Morals - But Big on Moralising Too
Forget Rose – Patten is the Real Thorn in M&s's Side
This Week's Home Secretary
Greed is Good (sometimes); But Regulation is Better
Missed Opportunities and Mad Ideas: the Government's Legacy
Culling the Quangos (again)
Begging Jack Straw's Lack of Pardons
Why Seeing Phèdre in a Cinema in Kettering Was a Bit Like Watching a World Cup Final
My Week: Matthew D'ancona
It's Ridiculous to Talk About 'freeconomics' When We've Already Given Ourselves Away
Oh, It's Easy to Play the Hard Man With Ronnie Biggs
World Through a Lens: Sir David Frost's Party, 2 July
Hail the Man Who Argues Britain Should Stop Worrying About Its Debt
Debbie Rowe May Even Out-weird Michael
Fools Gold
Bring It On Again (and Again, and Again)
Merrie Lark in the Country
Meanwhile, Back in the Real World
Jacko's Music Could Live on - Through His Kids
Gloom That Not Even Mario and Sonic Could Lighten
A Certain Age
Weatherwatch
Playing the Percentage Game
Trust is Easy to Lose, Impossible to Regain
Those Hoax Myths Debunked
Sony's Ps3 Home: Like Going to the Pub, Without Leaving Your House
Swine Flu: All You Can Do is Have Backbone and Carry on
Why I Made an Exhibition of Myself on the Plinth
Lindsay Lohan and Her Fake-bake Crisis
Big Brother
Silvio Berlusconi and Gordon Brown: the Italian Job
Simon Hoggart's Week: Gordon Brown and Other Planets