Commentators
John Lichfield: Our Man In Paris
Published: 09 April 2007
Katy Guest: The out-of-touch gardener faces His people
Published: 09 April 2007
Dylan Jones: Sopranos and Angelenos
Published: 09 April 2007
Last night saw the broadcast in the US of the first instalment of the last series of The Sopranos, a programme that has recently been rightly acclaimed as the best drama serial ever made. West Wing fans might say that their show is more erudite, but it doesn't come close to the pathos generated by David Chase's creation.
Charles Nevin: Consolation from the great stage of fools
Published: 09 April 2007
This being a day when even the sober and responsible employees of financial institutions close their bound ledgers with a sigh and surrender briefly to levity, I thought I, too, would take leave from the usual dense and closely reasoned argument which characterises this space and instead move more slightly among the news and comment agenda.
Rebecca Tyrrel: Days Like Those
Published: 09 April 2007
A L Kennedy: A nation again: so what is eating the Scots?
Published: 08 April 2007
Roger Cooper: So, no deal? Watch this space
Published: 08 April 2007
Malcolm Rifkind: These islands are on the brink of a true political tragedy
Published: 08 April 2007
John Foot: Italian police beating up fans? Big deal. It's what they do
Published: 08 April 2007
Oliver James: Nippers need emotional rescue from daycare
Published: 08 April 2007
Rupert Cornwell: Out of America
Published: 08 April 2007
Jemima Lewis: Try as we might, we can't ignore each other
Published: 07 April 2007
Richard Ingrams' Week: Maybe this new chief can curb the BBC's spending
Published: 07 April 2007
The newly appointed chairman of the BBC, Sir Michael Lyons, says he doesn't watch much television. So he may be a grey man and a crony of Gordon Brown's but at least he has one thing in common with a great many of us.
Anne Penketh: Is Tehran really to blame for mounting death toll?
Published: 06 April 2007
Tony Blair's warning to Tehran was a reminder that the West's problem with the Iranian government remains as intractable now as it was before the 13-day hostage crisis began.
The Third Leader: Great Eggspectations For The Spring Festivities
Published: 06 April 2007
Welcome to the spring festivities, wherever you might be, at home or abroad, moving or static, aerial or earthbound. A special mention, too, to those selflessly guarding the car as the rest of the family visit garden centre, supermarket, or DIY emporium.
Naseem Khan: The Government's mixed messages on integration
Published: 05 April 2007
Cooper Brown: He's Out There
Published: 05 April 2007
Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around
Published: 05 April 2007
I was really excited about my second date with Charlie, a gorgeous art dealer who also turned out to be a fantastic kisser. We went back to his flat, where he poured me a glass of wine, and led me to the bedroom. "I'll just put some music on," he whispered, but when he came back I was horrified to hear the beginning of the lame R&B group Color Me Badd singing "I Wanna Sex You Up".
Michael Brown: Cleethorpes points towards a Tory revival
Published: 05 April 2007
The Third Leader: Just desserts
Published: 05 April 2007
Cream cakes, sponge puddings, trifles, cheesecakes, custard and all the other sweet things that come between a meal and its end: we are eating them as never before, percentage increases year on year across the trolley moving more quickly than you can shake a spoon at or cover in a rich chocolate sauce.
Lovemore Matombo: Mugabe's brutal repression will not break us
Published: 04 April 2007
Claudia Winkleman: Take It From Me
Published: 04 April 2007
The Third Leader: Pebble dashed
Published: 04 April 2007
Bemusement, we note, has greeted the news that Ian McEwan faces the possibility of a £2,000 fine for taking some souvenir pebbles from Dorset's Chesil Beach, the setting for his new novella of the same name.
David Prosser: Stock market is cause of pensions crisis
Published: 03 April 2007
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