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Matthew Norman: Hypnotised by the Messiah of Manchester Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 29 September 2006

He led the Children of Millbank out of opposition and sustained them with the manna of electoral success

Thomas Sutcliffe: A thrill that is barely concealed Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 29 September 2006

Thirty-eight years ago this week, Hair opened in London - one day after the Lord Chamberlain's power to licence plays had been done away with. And the hair that most obviously exercised the many journalists who covered the event was pubic. Hair, notoriously at the time, included a scene of mass nudity - the cast's own minor contribution to the banishment of shame.

Steve Richards: Can Labour follow Bill Clinton's advice and show the voters how much politics matters? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 28 September 2006

Now that Blair is going, his presentational skills are suddenly being hailed as pivotal

Janet Street-Porter: How the Post Office is junking its reputation Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 28 September 2006

The Royal Mail is very concerned about branding its image, and spends a fortune in getting their message across. It seems to have forgotten, in its search for profits, that it is also in a "people" business, and all over Britain, their customers have very strong relationships with both their local postman and their nearest post office.

John Rentoul: Brown's speeches always fall slightly below expectations, Blair's always exceed them Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 27 September 2006

There are not many people who can make a Labour audience clap identity cards

Mark Steel: The Blairs: a working-class family Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 27 September 2006

'All right, Cher, leave it babe. Go and get yer 'air done, princess. OK, Gordon, carry on'

Hamish McRae: Europe must lift its economic game Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 27 September 2006

The issues are how best to lift the laggards and how best to encourage the leaders

Deborah Orr: How can we intervene anywhere after Iraq? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 27 September 2006

It's hard to be grateful when young men die for a bunch of lies and a surfeit of macho posturing

Thomas Sutcliffe: Only men could be such jackasses Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 26 September 2006

It being something of a bull market for anti-Americanism these days I don't suppose it will be very long before some social commentator attempts to treat the success of Jackass Number Two at the American box office as a symptom rather than a mere commercial statistic. Who could blame them, frankly? In the same week that Sean Penn's film of Robert Penn Warren's great political novel All The King's Men opened in cinemas, the citizens of the most powerful nation on earth overwhelmingly preferred to watch a celebration of reckless self-endangerment - the highlights of which include the administration of a beer enema, the drinking of horse semen and one of the team having a penis seared on to his buttocks with a branding iron. In truth, the commentators are going to be jostling with the Freudians to be first in the interpretative queue - dire warnings of terminal societal decadence battling with diagnoses of derailed transitional development and suppressed homoerotic tendencies.

Steve Richards: Nothing reveals the tightness of Mr Brown's position more than Mrs Blair's intervention Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 26 September 2006

He had pulled it off and then Cherie Blair discovered she had the power to change the agenda

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 26 September 2006

'In future, male journalists must display a minimum BMI of 29.9 and a lung/smoke factor of 49 per cent'

Andreas Whittam Smith: Will Blair now tell us what our soldiers died for? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 25 September 2006

The truth is they are dying for a policy that increases the risks of terrorist attacks on Britain

Alan Watkins: It's a pity about poor Mr Brown. I'll wager he'll win the crown, but lose the kingdom Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 24 September 2006

Lib Dems could hold the balance of power, even with fewer seats. There is some dispute about what Heath offered Thorpe

John Rentoul: Brown will face a contested election for the leadership Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 24 September 2006

'Luck is where preparation meets opportunity'

Rowan Pelling: Adventures with my Rampant Rabbit Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 24 September 2006

Believe me, a vibrator is no substitute for a husband. But it's great if he's not around

Joan Smith: Call me serious. Call me gay if you must. But Top Gear stinks Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 24 September 2006

The show has become a paean to speed, risk and destruction

Editor-at-Large: Free the hot to trot Brazilian bombshell - and put her on TV! Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 24 September 2006

When a witness in a court is said to have thanked his glamorous Brazilian lover by email for "her delicious P", I don't think he was referring to a takeaway pizza or potted shrimps.

Janet Street-Porter: The husbands! The lovers! The stars! The outrageous world of ...JSP! Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 24 September 2006

She left home at 19 to move in with her lover and throw herself into life in Swinging Sixties London. By 22 Janet Street-Porter had a weekly column in a national newspaper

Deborah Orr: When 'truancy' is about nothing more than a cheap family holiday Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 23 September 2006

I like the way that the bumper increase in school truancy during the past decade has been reported as having occurred "despite" repeated government drives to improve attendance. Actually, even cursory analysis of the figures suggests that at least some of the rise - if not all of it - has happened precisely because of the government's policies.

Brian Viner: Inside story of Fergie, Coolmore and the Rock would be a surefire best-seller Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 23 September 2006

'Imagine it: Barbara Cartland meets Dick Francis meets John le Carré'

Will Self: PsychoGeography Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 23 September 2006

A river runs through me

Matthew Norman: Stalin would have approved of all this Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 22 September 2006

There's nothing new about the practice, but 'Dr' Reid will know it by its Soviet term of 'denunciation'

Thomas Sutcliffe: Television will survive YouTube Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 22 September 2006

So far YouTube doesn't seem to have been verbed yet - that transitional moment at which a brand name metastasises to take possession of an action, as has already occurred with Google. It really can't be far away though, given that YouTube is one of the most popular websites on the internet and is growing at an astonishing rate. It reportedly increased its users 500 per cent in the first half of this year - and the news that it has just signed a deal with Warner Music to make pop videos available free aren't exactly likely to to slow its growth. And if you're one of the dwindling number of people not aware of it, then I should explain that the verb "youtube" would mean something like the following: to upload short video clips to a website so that anyone with an internet connection can view them. If you're one of the one in eight internet users who already visit the YouTube site you will probably know that the verb has a secondary meaning: to sit in a state of powerless stupefaction in front of a cornucopia of the nugatory and the negligible.

Steve Richards: The Lib Dems won't go into coalition Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 21 September 2006

Mr Cameron need not bother making cups of tea for Sir Ming. A Con/Lib coalition will not happen

Janet Street-Porter: Ambridge - a beacon of real tolerance Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 21 September 2006

I'm not ashamed to admit I'm a closet Archers fan - especially as this week the world's longest-running radio soap has notched up two important firsts.

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