Archive

Contents

Editorial Bowing and scraping

Not finally . . . Julia Langdon spotted a rogue

Michael White wants to be heard

Lynne O’Donnell puts a price on trust

James Hughes-Onslow likes memorial services

Jon Williams treasures bravery and sacrifice

 

Sarah Whitehead How to broadcast a war

John Ryley An armchair with a view

Ben Lynfield What Israel learns of war

Peter Oborne and Irfan Chowdhury Hands off Jeremy Bowen

Steve Barnett and Julian Petley A plan to save the corporation

Richard Tait The BBC needs a journalist

Wendy Sloane Lies, lies and more lies

Lynne O’Donnell Let’s put a price on trust

Charlotte Henry We’ll take what we can get

Conrad Landin Who will pay for a critic?

 

Book Reviews:

Paddy Manning explains the Murdochs

Peter Kellner wants political analysis

Jane Martinson shudders at Mohamed Fayed

Roger Alton likes Sebastian Faulks

Neil Levis salutes a local journalist

Roy Greenslade rereads the Mirror

 

Xwatch

Quotes of the quarter

The way we were

Royal warrants

For the first time in his life, King Charles got the reviews he deserved. His performance in the United States in April was by general acclaim a tour de force, particularly in his delivery of a nicely crafted speech that had his audience rising repeatedly in ovation....

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Peter told such dreadful lies

Peter Mandelson has never had a problem with being straightforward, which, of course, is not quite the same thing as being straight – that is, in the old-fashioned dictionary sense of telling the truth. For years I have retained in my memory, but never written, an...

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