Columnists A - L

Howard Jacobson: Imagine the scene when Sol Kerzner comes face to face with a typical Beswick urchin

Published: 03 February 2007

Gangs of four-year-olds roamed the precinct demanding protection money

Andrew Grice: The Week In Politics

Published: 03 February 2007

Mutiny brews as Blair's defiance threatens to shipwreck Labour

David Lister: The Week in Arts

Published: 03 February 2007

Vandalism at the National Film Theatre

Dominic Lawson: You may not like it, but prison works - and we need to lock up more people, not fewer

Published: 02 February 2007

Prison may not have a massive deterrent effect - but 'not-prison' has even less power to deter

The Sketch: What the world needs now is a green fascist

Published: 02 February 2007

Theresa May had a good idea. Mind your head on the sharp edges as you fall backwards. She asked for a debate on the cost of government reorganisations.

Tracey Emin: My Life In A Column

Published: 02 February 2007

'A fatefully cruel thing happened one day. Personally, I blame it on punk rock and anarchy'

Joan Bakewell: A blow to the idea that knowledge is for all to share

Published: 02 February 2007

Cuts to the British Library threaten to do much more than pare away excess fat

Terence Blacker: Now weed out all those idle and clueless GPs

Published: 02 February 2007

In any other profession, the incompetent and the lazy would be called to account

Miles Kington: Agent 007 gets in touch with his feminine side

Published: 02 February 2007

It's a bit like the word for 'royal' in Spanish, which is 'real'. As in 'Ray-al Madrid', not 'real ale' or 'get real'

Johann Hari: Bring back conscription (even for me)

Published: 01 February 2007

Would MPs have backed the war if they had known their kids would end up on the streets of Mosul?

The Sketch: Tiger Tone keeps on swinging as even the pygmies pull his tail

Published: 01 February 2007

"Sad to see someone of Blair's stature being so diminished by these events," I ventured.

Adrian Hamilton: Don't write off multiculturalism yet

Published: 01 February 2007

The central message is that Muslims in Britain present a special problem

Miles Kington: The slothful sloth, and other strange but (maybe) true stories

Published: 01 February 2007

After three whole years of trying to get it to make the simplest of movements, scientists have given up and donated it to a zoo

Mary Dejevsky: Where is our national soul-searching on Iraq?

Published: 31 January 2007

We are just as capable of manifesting popular dissent as Americans

The Sketch: Tessa and her twin keep their eyes down to gamble on Manchester

Published: 31 January 2007

The joy of Tessa. Twice in two days. She was sitting on the same bench as Harriet Harman, looking more and more sororal. Same face, more or less. Same hair. Same earnest, decent manner; same well-meaning, blue-stockinged goodness.

Terence Blacker: Donate your moobs to the less well-endowed

Published: 31 January 2007

The vogue for moob-reduction has yet to reach the part of England where I live. Relatively unevolved when it comes to the question of cosmetic surgery, East Anglians tend to believe that a man's breasts - "moobs", as they are now called - are an essential part of who he is. Perhaps we lag behind the rest of the country but when, on the High Street, a vast economy-pack mother, father and children trundle by, scoffing chips, with their various boobs, moobs and choobs wobbling away in unison, they are simply regarded as part of the local scenery.

Alex James: The Great Escape

Published: 31 January 2007

I'm one of the proud presenters of The Tube, Channel 4 Radio's madhouse monthly magazine programme, and I've persuaded the producers to let me interview a highbrow academic genius every month. We had a maths mastermind this time, Dr Richard Elwes from Leeds University. I was hoping to have a word with him about "metric tensors", which I must admit was a bit of insider dealing, because it's something I've been struggling with myself, at home. Metric tensors are the mathematical tools used to describe the geometry of spacetime and are key to understanding Einstein's universe.

Miles Kington: Down by the riverside, there's something fishy going on

Published: 31 January 2007

No one ever talks to anglers. We fisher folk have built up a reputation for a boorish lack of communication

Dominic Lawson: Jane and Ségo - who's the actor?

Published: 30 January 2007

Mme Royal seems to have risen on the basis of her film-star physiognomy and a plausible smile

Philip Hensher: Watch out... it's another sad and lonely lesbian

Published: 30 January 2007

What film-makers like is a plot about a hideous gay or lesbian being predatory towards a heterosexual

Miles Kington: Three brand new fables for our times

Published: 30 January 2007

'I have never seen you before in my life,' said the tuna. 'Please let me go.' So the loan shark ate him

The Sketch: Will Tessa be evicted by Big Gordon?

Published: 30 January 2007

In the absence of anything happening, the temptation to play no-win games is hard to resist. You look down into the pit and note, almost with fear, how thin on top Owen Paterson is getting. He used to be one of those nice young men the Tories did so well, and now he's old enough to be losing his hair. Maybe he'll get fat and then we'll really feel the throb of time passing. I've got a little Latin: Eheu fugaces, postume, postume. "The days flee away and are lost to me, lost to me."

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: I feel British, but I don't want enforced patriotism

Published: 29 January 2007

Cameron's ideas on Britishness are so remarkable Labour would be foolish not to steal them

Johann Hari: The real solution to our prisons crisis

Published: 29 January 2007

In Wormwood Scrubs I met Anthony. He had brain damage and asked me if I was his father

Miles Kington: Opposite options... some more advice for the confused

Published: 29 January 2007

Is global warming a good or bad thing? And are men really incapable of doing two things at the same time?

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Columnists A - L

Howard Jacobson: Imagine the scene when Sol Kerzner comes face to face with a typical Beswick urchin

Andrew Grice: The Week In Politics

David Lister: The Week in Arts

Dominic Lawson: You may not like it, but prison works - and we need to lock up more people, not fewer

The Sketch: What the world needs now is a green fascist

Tracey Emin: My Life In A Column

Joan Bakewell: A blow to the idea that knowledge is for all to share

Terence Blacker: Now weed out all those idle and clueless GPs

Miles Kington: Agent 007 gets in touch with his feminine side

Johann Hari: Bring back conscription (even for me)

The Sketch: Tiger Tone keeps on swinging as even the pygmies pull his tail

Adrian Hamilton: Don't write off multiculturalism yet

Miles Kington: The slothful sloth, and other strange but (maybe) true stories

Mary Dejevsky: Where is our national soul-searching on Iraq?

The Sketch: Tessa and her twin keep their eyes down to gamble on Manchester

Terence Blacker: Donate your moobs to the less well-endowed

Alex James: The Great Escape

Miles Kington: Down by the riverside, there's something fishy going on

Dominic Lawson: Jane and Ségo - who's the actor?

Philip Hensher: Watch out... it's another sad and lonely lesbian

Miles Kington: Three brand new fables for our times

The Sketch: Will Tessa be evicted by Big Gordon?

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: I feel British, but I don't want enforced patriotism

Johann Hari: The real solution to our prisons crisis

Miles Kington: Opposite options... some more advice for the confused

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