Commentators
Week 3, day 16, and with every passing hour, the regime digs in deeper
Robert Fisk sees Cairo's protesters rally again in Tahrir Square.
Inside Commentators
Christina Patterson: Less of the pantomime politics, please
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
It perhaps isn't surprising that we have leaders who think the most important thing is how you look on a stage
Mark Steel: The caring, sharing way to bad times
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
The first troubling side to the Big Society is no one can explain what it means. You might not agree with them, but at least policy initiatives such as the Five-Year Plan, Thousand-Year Reich or Holy Jihad were clear and got their point across. But ministers explain the Big Society with statements such as, "It's a brave optimism vision that instead of statedom fills a voluntary doingness not interferencing and oooh it will be so BIG and, 'Neighbours, [sings] everybody needs good neighbours', and I'm excited let's deliver more chickens to old people."
Matthew Norman: One expects hypocrisy, but the amateurism is unforgivable
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
What is so specially nauseating is that Mr Brown and his pals believed they had played a blinder. They were as cocooned from their deceit as Eden was in 1956
Sean O'Grady: Osborne's City 'friends' may be in for a shock
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
George Osborne is not a stupid man, though often underestimated. He and Vince Cable know that nothing would be more damaging to the Coalition parties than a public perception, lovingly nourished by Ed Balls, that they are "The Bankers' Friends". For Cable it would represent the ultimate betrayal of a career built on attacks on the City's bonus culture and "casino banks". For Osborne, it would be seen as a reversion to type for a millionaire Tory Chancellor to cuddle up to his banker mates.
Ian Burrell: Alarm bells ring for Murdoch in his Wapping fortress
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
There are many reasons why Rupert Murdoch will be alarmed at this latest development in the long-running phone hacking scandal at the fenced compound in Wapping, east London, that houses the media mogul's stable of British newspapers, News International.
The Sketch: Osborne shows no fear as the big fight turns out to be a mismatch
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
John Rentoul: My, how he's grown. Isn't it remarkable how the trappings of the priestly caste make it look as though George Osborne knows what he's talking about?
Talbot Church: Caring Kate and Wills to make Red Nose debut
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
The man the Royals trust...
Does Cameron have multiculturalist ambitions?
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
The nature of what David Cameron was arguing in his speech in Munich is problematic. He claims some young Muslim men ‘find it hard to identify with Britain... because we have allowed the weakening of our collective identity’.
Columnist Comments
• Christina Patterson: Less of the pantomime politics, please
It perhaps isn't surprising that we have leaders who think the most important thing is how you look on a stage
• Mark Steel: The caring, sharing way to bad times
The first troubling side to the Big Society is no one can explain what it means
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