Commentators
Crispin Black: Contempt is the new sleaze
Published: 18 December 2005
Arabella Weir: Mistletoe and Christian rhyme. Not round here
Published: 18 December 2005
David Quantick: Good taste? Don't make me laugh
Published: 18 December 2005
Geoffrey Lean: The big freeze: why we can all start dreaming of a white Easter
Published: 18 December 2005
Rupert Cornwell: Out of America
Published: 18 December 2005
Jemima Lewis: Why Libby should shut up and get back to school
Published: 17 December 2005
Richard Ingrams' Week: Youth appeal is wasted on the young
Published: 17 December 2005
The picture released this week of David Cameron with his new team looked just like the kind of picture you see in a trade magazine of the manager of a recently opened mobile phone outfit in the high street.
Matthew Norman: The appalling truth about 'Home Truths'
Published: 16 December 2005
The Third Leader: Traffic calming
Published: 16 December 2005
Absolute disgrace! Entirely sensible! Sanctimonious fascist control freak! How many more will have to die?! What next, rendition?! Smellybum! Pooface! Ah, yes, of course, the speed-camera debate.
Sean O'Grady: Kennedy should go, but not in this manner
Published: 15 December 2005
The Third Leader: Word in your year
Published: 15 December 2005
Do be a little wary over the next week or so, since we are about to enter the season of lists, reviews and round-ups of the year. As with most things, I find, a good rule of thumb is to ignore them unless they appear in the organs of Independent News & Media and its associates, the only instances in which the desire to illuminate and inform is the motive rather than the need to fill space or air because everybody's off at the Xmas party having fun with the photocopier.
Phillip Knightley: The nasty side of the new Australia
Published: 14 December 2005
The Third Leader: Literary lingerie
Published: 14 December 2005
Ay, Connie lass! By 'eck, but there's trouble oop at t'DH Lawrence estate. Seems that t'nobs running it are a bit brassed off that t'well-known floggers of all sorts of 'elp to earthy goings on, Ann Summers, are selling a Lady Chatterley Basque, a Lady Chatterley Thong, and a Lady Chatterley Bra, appen, tha' knows.
Douglas Hurd: Don't stir up ancient disputes
Published: 13 December 2005
The Third Leader: Schadenfreude for beginners
Published: 13 December 2005
Oh, dear. Once again, our foreign language failings are brought to notice. Despite every incentive, invitation and entreaty to rejoice, luxuriate and frolic in the delights of another tongue, the number of young people learning one remains in decline. There was another appeal for more effort yesterday, citing economic necessity and cultural reward, from Thomas Matussek, the departing German ambassador to Britain.
Iain Hutchison: The crossing of a dangerous medical frontiers
Published: 12 December 2005
Charles Nevin: News from Elsewhere
Published: 12 December 2005
Patrick Cockburn: Iraq: the beginning of the end
Published: 11 December 2005
Katy Guest: Party time at the office again. 'Tis the season to be jolly humiliated
Published: 11 December 2005
Nick Foulkes: Deck shoes ready, Boden Man is on the march
Published: 11 December 2005
Jeff Barak: Anti-semitism or a war with the 'Mail'? It would be simpler if Ken just said sorry
Published: 11 December 2005
Chapman Pincher: The far from glorious history of MI5
Published: 11 December 2005
In the latest attempt to burnish its public image and diminish its aura of secrecy, MI5, the security service responsible for the prevention of espionage, sabotage and now terrorism in the UK, has embellished its website with portraits and potted CVs of its former chiefs, dating back to its pre-Second World War director general, Sir Vernon Kell.
Rupert Cornwell: Out of America
Published: 11 December 2005
