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Oliver Walston: I should never have offered farm aid to Africa

Published: 06 February 2007

Oxfam wouldn't take money from supermarkets and thus had to refuse my offer

Zoe Anderson: She'd dance through air raids

Published: 06 February 2007

The Second World War was a turning point in Fonteyn's career, as it was for the company that became the Royal Ballet. Audiences who had seen her dance through air raids, holding balances on stages that trembled with the impact of bombs, never forgot it. She was a national heroine by the end of the war, but her greatest triumphs lay ahead.

The Third Leader: Welcome back

Published: 06 February 2007

How are you today? Fighting fit? I ask because, as those with some time on their hands yesterday might have learnt, the first Monday in February is the worst day of the year for absenteeism hiding under the cloak, or duvet, of one of those common ailments with a time span of exactly 24 hours. Yes, indeed: National Sickie Day.

Oksana Chelysheva: The slow, painful death of journalism in Russia

Published: 05 February 2007

For a while, we are not going to be acting as a clearing house for news about Chechnya

Rebecca Tyrrel: Days Like Those

Published: 05 February 2007

'Matthew will now be justified in inflicting tedious lectures on me - any time of night or day'

Dylan Jones: The pollster whose focus groups tipped Cameron as leader

Published: 05 February 2007

Only 24 hours after chatting amiably with John Reid outside his press lunch at the House of Commons last Thursday, US pollster Frank Luntz was in Drones, asking the waitresses if they had seen the Home Secretary's brain. The Sun had asked its readers that morning if anyone had seen Mr Reid's marbles, and Luntz - perhaps worried that the readers might be unsuccessful - was soliciting the help of three waitresses.

John Lichfield: Our Man In Paris

Published: 05 February 2007

'I was humiliated the last time I did a school project'

Jonathan Meades: Don't blame poor old Bernard Matthews. We deserve him

Published: 04 February 2007

Most Britons will go on eating cheaply, greedily and carelessly

Hermione Eyre: Casino confessional

Published: 04 February 2007

If you think that stepping into Manchester's new supercasino will release your inner Bond, then our former croupier will bet that you will lose a lot more than your money

Sarah Sands: Bravo, Silvio! Bellissima, Veronica! Viva Berlusconi!

Published: 04 February 2007

Lario is no Portia. She caught her husband's eye by stripping on stage

Geoffrey Lean: A duck could be a good weapon against climate change, Tony

Published: 04 February 2007

I worry about your tendency to let George Bush off the hook

Katy Guest: So sorry Sienna. Big pants are back

Published: 04 February 2007

When it comes to knickers, your granny knows best

Norman Dombey and Claire Spencer: Whether or not they've been looking for a pretext to bomb Iran, they've found one

Published: 04 February 2007

If Iran was an 'imminent threat', that might authorise an attack

Rupert Cornwell: Out of America special

Published: 04 February 2007

Super Sunday: The beers are on ice, the pizzas on order, as 100 million people gather round the TV for the biggest event in the American football calendar

Jemima Lewis: Why British men make good husbands

Published: 03 February 2007

Women have a weakness for ideals. We find a man who is almost perfect, then fixate on the almost

Richard Ingrams' Week: These gay hoteliers prove that we live in strange times

Published: 03 February 2007

One thing that may have puzzled people about the gay adoption controversy was how a new law about discrimination in the provision of "goods and services" could be applied to something like the adoption of children.

Mark Lynas: The hellish vision of life on a hotter planet

Published: 03 February 2007

Buried within the newly released IPCC report is an apocalyptic warning: if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at current rates, global warming by the end of the century could total 6.4C. The scientists don't say so explicitly, but a rise in temperatures of this magnitude would catapult the planet into an extreme greenhouse state not seen for nearly 100 million years, when dinosaurs grazed on polar rainforests and deserts reached into the heart of Europe. It would cause a mass extinction of almost all life and probably reduce humanity to a few struggling groups of embattled survivors clinging to life near the poles.

Alan Johnson: Children must think differently

Published: 02 February 2007

In 1815, Mt Tambora in Indonesia ejected 160 billion tons of ash into the atmosphere - an explosion so cataclysmic that inhabitants of the eastern US and western Europe didn't see the sun again for almost a year.

This family's treatment makes me ashamed to be Labour MP

Published: 01 February 2007

The Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell vents his frustration after a 'model family' is deported in handcuffs.

Terry Leahy: Don't blame us: we can't get rid of all packaging

Published: 01 February 2007

You can't force the pace of change, even for sound environmental reasons

Paul Wilkinson: This doesn't mean they have given up on bombing

Published: 01 February 2007

Although jihadi extremist groups have kidnapped British Muslims in Iraq, we have no experience of them kidnapping any member of the armed forces on United Kingdom territory.

Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around

Published: 01 February 2007

'Being trapped with someone in a room for 72 hours made me feel like a lioness pacing her cage at feeding time'

Cooper Brown: He's Out There

Published: 01 February 2007

'I'm just about to get started on a spare bottle of bourbon when there's a knock on the window'

Claudia Winkleman: Take It From Me

Published: 31 January 2007

'Kamwacha isn't a slum. It's hell. Make no mistake - it's the most terrifying place on Earth'

Lucy Caldwell: The story so far...

Published: 30 January 2007

A dull, uninspired morning: I should be able to lounge about in bed with buck's fizz and defrosted chocolate croissants (the penniless writer's take on champagne breakfast at the Georges V in Paris) but somehow I always find myself sitting glumly at my desk by 8am. The ingrained Protestant work ethic, perhaps.

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