Commentators
Leonard Quart: The joy of foreign interlopers on Broadway
Published: 13 June 2006
Donald Macintyre: How Britain's warm words disguise a cold reality for Olmert
Published: 13 June 2006
On the face of it, Ehud Olmert will leave London having got from Tony Blair most of what he could reasonably expect.
The Third Leader: Street scenery
Published: 13 June 2006
Those eternally vigilant for freedom will be in deep ponder over the move to prevent sandwich board men from expressing themselves on Oxford Street, and it's easy to see why.
Jeremy Laurance: GMC risks turning a maverick into a martyr
Published: 12 June 2006
The General Medical Council's decision to pursue Andrew Wakefield is a huge gamble. The scare over MMR vaccine that began in 1998 has seen hundreds of thousands of parents reject one of the most basic safeguards for children.
David Usborne: Our Man In New York
Published: 12 June 2006
Rebecca Tyrrel: Days Like Those
Published: 12 June 2006
Charles Nevin: If only the meek had inherited the earth
Published: 12 June 2006
Being of a kindred temperament, my sympathies are presently spending time with Sir Menzies Campbell and the 21 Vietnamese oil executives who face suspension after failing to take part in karaoke at a contract-signing ceremony near Hanoi.
Geoffrey Lean: Survival comes at a price
Published: 11 June 2006
Ellis Cashmore: Sticks and stones
Published: 11 June 2006
Sam Taylor-Wood: Seven times they said I didn't have cancer. You just have to be pushy
Published: 11 June 2006
Dave Hill: Let's hear it for the fans (until the riots begin)
Published: 11 June 2006
Rupert Cornwell: Out of America
Published: 11 June 2006
Jemima Lewis: It is a relief to hear Cameron the curmudgeon
Published: 10 June 2006
Richard Ingrams' Week: Nothing reasonable about this intelligence
Published: 10 June 2006
It is worrying how few people are worrying about some of the things that are going on in this country.
Shamim Chowdhury: Forest Gate has only helped the extremists
Published: 09 June 2006
The Third Leader: Here we go...
Published: 09 June 2006
So, at last, after, metatarsal, untried youth, Sven flips, daring to dream, appeals for good humour and no harking back, 1,966 interviews with George Cohen and the revelation that an average car carrying two England flags travelling at 70mph burns an extra litre of fuel per hour: it's all kicking off!
Sir Menzies Campbell: Cut taxes for the low paid and hit polluters
Published: 08 June 2006
The Third Leader: Foot fault
Published: 08 June 2006
Forgive me, but I have been thinking about the foot. No, no, not that foot: that is everywhere else. Still, I confess it was that foot that started me thinking about the foot, but in a different way. For it seems to me that, of the body parts, and despite its importance, the foot has never really achieved the recognition it deserves.
Andy Kershaw: The band played there because the students were very professional
Published: 07 June 2006
The legendary Live at Leeds gig was 10 years before my time. I was at junior school when The Who played the Refectory. But as ents officer for the Leeds University student union between 1980 and 1982, I was acutely aware of the place's great rock history and the standards which were there to maintain.
Michael Brown: Long may this Labour turmoil continue
Published: 07 June 2006
The Third Leader: Gay rights and wrongs
Published: 07 June 2006
Outrage: that lovely old word, gay, has been hijacked. Now, according to the BBC, it can mean, depending on the context, "lame" or "rubbish", not "homosexual". Oh, dear. "Words, words, words," as both Hamlet and Eliza Doolittle exclaimed, in different contexts.
Denis Macshane: Britain can help to shape a new Europe
Published: 06 June 2006
Catherine Townsend: Sleeping around
Published: 06 June 2006
"Cut it," I laughed, sinking down into my trendy East London hairdresser's chair. "But nothing too drastic - if I end up with a mullet, I'll really be depressed." Since my break-up with Richard, I've spent a lot of time either wallowing in my tracksuit bottoms or out at tequila bars with my girlfriends.
The Third Leader: Six of the best
Published: 06 June 2006
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobics: don't panic! Yes, well, right, that's easy for me to say, but then I don't suffer from a morbid fear of the number 666, arising from its association with the Beast, the Antichrist, the Apocalypse, children with rude stares and some truly horrific rock bands from whom no live chicken or kohl merchant was, or is, safe. There was also something to do with a TV advertisement for aftershave, but I might be confused about that.
John Lichfield: Our Man In Paris
Published: 05 June 2006
