Diary
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UK Politics
The Tolpuddle Martyrs get the last laugh
- 31 July 2008
- 7 comments
The front row of the socialist choir began: "There's a rumble in the air tonight," while the back row sang, "Oh no, it's an imperialist bomb"
Life & Society
Latitude, Leonard and the mob mind
- 24 July 2008
- 2 comments
"Get out of my country!" shouts a young man. A tidal swell of assent and applause fills the comedy tent. How quickly things turn
Middle East
Less Demos, more lilo
- 17 July 2008
- 5 comments
Does harbouring a secret longing for an inept successor, possibly unpleasant, maybe even scarily unattractive, make me a terrible person?
Media
Daily bread
- 10 July 2008
- 2 comments
I'm a huge admirer of Tony Blair but I come in for a good ticking-off from colleagues for a headline on a story about his property woes
Middle East
A short walk in Palestine - or is it Eretz Yisrael?
- 03 July 2008
- 4 comments
We stopped to eat our picnic breakfast of Nabulsi goat's cheese and tomatoes - which we had to eat whole because I could not risk being stopped on the road carrying a Swiss army knife
Media
Bonfire of the inanities
- 26 June 2008
- 1 comment
Never-sent love letters and the confidential stories of sources . . . they are among my most valued possessions and, unlike Jeanette, I couldn't just destroy them
Economy
Sir Alan, the dodgy tapes and the bum shot
- 19 June 2008
Tuesday was the big debut - an interview with Alan Sugar. This seriously impressed my friends, but not Sir Alan. "I don't know why my people agreed to this," he said, as he walked in an hour late
Law & Reform
On being beastly to prisoners
- 12 June 2008
- 1 comment
Whoever thought it was appropriate to name the prisons of the 21st century after Titan must have been out of his or her mind
Society
Scandalous men and terrifying women
- 05 June 2008
Loose Women want to run a clip of me interviewing someone interesting, so they call Newsnight. And I'm busted. Totally
UK Politics
Having a laugh at those low political moments
- 29 May 2008
- 1 comment
I can't get Cherie Blair out of my mind. Why do people dislike her so much? Is it the old prejudice about clever, mouthy women?
