Commentators
The Third Leader: Wild life
Published: 23 March 2007
Consider how it must be, sharing a planet with us. Take, for example, the giant squid minding its own business doing what giant squids do until fishermen took two hours to catch it before freezing it and taking it to a laboratory in New Zealand where they are planning to place it in a giant microwave.
Michael Brown: Now the Tories know they won't have an easy time
Published: 22 March 2007
Peter Tatchell: Why has the left gone soft on human rights?
Published: 22 March 2007
Stephen King: With taxation at historically high levels, the Chancellor has a patchy record to defend
Published: 22 March 2007
Tony Juniper: We need a coherent strategy to tackle climate change
Published: 22 March 2007
Cooper Brown: He's Out There
Published: 22 March 2007
Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around
Published: 22 March 2007
I've always thought there was something a bit strange about married men who don't wear wedding rings. But I didn't spot a sinister trend until I met "Chris", a tall and fit trader, through mutual friends at a London members' club. After a few minutes of small talk, I surreptitiously glanced down to the third finger of his left hand while pretending to check the time. It was bare, with no obvious white lines or indentations - the single-girl code for green light.
The Third Leader: Bore necessities
Published: 22 March 2007
Forgive me, but I was wondering if you would care for some respite from golden rules, differentials, thresholds, gateways, what it will mean for you and the dangers of fiscal loosening. I have to confess that even as I was trying to concentrate on the need to build a stronger, shared national consensus around future priorities, and despite the twopence off, my mind turned to the Severn Bore.
Denis MacShane: Why I am an unashamed Euro enthusiast
Published: 21 March 2007
Boyd Tonkin: A lightning conductor for the revolution
Published: 21 March 2007
Few people these days have ever heard of John Taylor. Yet he was the Romantic-era publisher without whose support and friendship we would not have the poetry and prose of Keats, Clare, Lamb and De Quincey as we know them. Pioneer publishers carry groundbreaking talents from the margin of a culture to its mainstream. In doing so, they condemn themselves to long-term oblivion. Maybe that helps to explain the recurrent grumpiness of veteran innovators - a trait that John Calder famously shares, in spades.
Claudia Winkleman: Take It From Me
Published: 21 March 2007
The Third Leader: The write stuff
Published: 21 March 2007
Much glowering of brows in Brontë Country as deep, possibly smouldering, passions are aroused by commercial appropriations of the famous name. Some recognition is suggested by Mr Wilcocks, chairman of the Brontë Society. And it being, well, that part of the world, he's after some hard brass.
Lucy Caldwell: The Story So Far...
Published: 20 March 2007
After a week of entertaining, celebrating and general post-show cavorting I've (reluctantly) come to the decision that I should give my poor liver a rest. I never thought I'd say it, but a girl can have too much champagne. I decided that I might as well cut down too on my best-loved poison: caffeine. So coffee has been replaced by a series of sludgy concoctions involving nettles and dandelions, with copious amounts of Manuka honey to disguise the fact it's nettles and dandelions I'm drinking. And I'm sitting down to write this with a beaker of goji berry and passionfruit juice. Which tastes better than it sounds. It's better, at least, than infusions of weeds.
Katy Guest: On the wrong side of the generation gap
Published: 20 March 2007
The Third Leader: Model behaviour
Published: 20 March 2007
What, then, are we to make of the penance of Naomi Campbell, the talented professional clothes wearer who has issues with anger, particularly when her maid can't find her jeans and she's within mobile phone range?
Rebecca Tyrrel: Days Like Those
Published: 19 March 2007
David Usborne: Our Man In New York
Published: 19 March 2007
Dylan Jones: Bhutan - not a cuckoo clock in sight
Published: 19 March 2007
From the air, Bhutan looks disconcertingly like Switzerland. Same snow-capped peaks, same wide, lush valleys, same tidy lodges peppering the mountains. Once you hit the ground, you realise there are no banks, no expensive watches and hardly any chilli-free cheese (unless you count the raclette at Fritz Maurer's Bhutanese Swiss Guesthouse), but you still feel as though you've flown halfway round the world to end up in the Alps. And so you look again and find that instead of billboards there are dozens of clusters of prayer flags, strung from poles, snapping in the wind. You have also landed at one of the most beautiful airports in the world.
Charles Nevin: This bonding stuff can be taken too far
Published: 19 March 2007
Today, in the interests of balance, after all that outpouring of emotion yesterday, the smiles, the tears, the blooms, the delicacies and the approximately cooked lunch, I should like to direct your attention to fathers.
Sarah Sands: The extravagance that knows no bounds
Published: 18 March 2007
Patrick Cockburn: The road to freedom is paved with blood
Published: 18 March 2007
Rosie Boycott: Skunk is dangerous. But I still believe in my campaign
Published: 18 March 2007
Victor Lewis-Smith: TV is dead and should be buried next to Goldie, Petra and the 'Blue Peter' parrot
Published: 18 March 2007
Geoffrey Wansell: Whatever the coroner may say, Sally Clark died of a broken heart
Published: 18 March 2007
Robin Murray: Teenage schizophrenia is the issue, not legality
Published: 18 March 2007
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