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The sinister reason why the Murdoch press is attacking the BBC

26 July 2003

One person I have been feeling a little sorry for over the past few days is Charles Moore, editor of the Daily Telegraph. His newspaper was a fervent supporter of… Read more

Mr Rusbridger has no more right to be cross than any other middle-class malefactor

19 July 2003

Last week the Press Complaints Commission delivered two judgments which, taken together, seem highly perplexing. It exonerated the News of the World for paying £10,000 to a convicted criminal who… Read more

At least the government can still rely on the dumbed-down Times for support

12 July 2003

When Robert Thomson was made editor of the Times some 18 months ago he let it be known that he intended to take his paper up-market. There was also good… Read more

The persecution of Mr Gilligan by Mr Campbell has been odious

5 July 2003

Many people distrust the BBC. They may like the idea of it, but often deplore the practice. They suspect that journalists who work for it are metropolitan lefties. But such… Read more

The press shouldn’t join the government in its mindless obsession with security

28 June 2003

A favourite newspaper ruse is to sneak a journalist on to the flight deck of a Boeing 747 and then to suggest that we are all at risk as a… Read more

Eurosceptic newspapers are too competitive to work together on a referendum

21 June 2003

Polly Toynbee of the Guardian believes that the Daily Mail is responsible for most of what is wrong with this country. When she learnt that the paper was intending to… Read more

Why was the Times so eager to do the government’s dirty work?

14 June 2003

The Times’s campaign against the billionaire businessman Michael Ashcroft is now largely forgotten. At the time it was a sensation. In the summer and autumn of 1999 the paper ran… Read more

The NoW is bad news, but the police were just as bad in the Posh ‘kidnap’ case

7 June 2003

Almost everyone dislikes the News of the World, including many of its readers. It is coarse, intrusive, hypocritical and sanctimonious. It frequently puts itself above or outside the law –… Read more

Don’t assume that Conrad Black is about to meet his Waterloo

31 May 2003

Before I start this piece, which is about the future of the Daily Telegraph, I should make clear that it is written by me. When I last wrote at length… Read more

The government will face the biggest fight of its life over the European constitution

24 May 2003

It was in these pages four weeks ago that the idea of a non-governmental referendum on the new European constitution was first mooted. Paul Robinson explained how, if Tony Blair… Read more

Sly move: how poor young Piers Morgan is losing his grip on the Mirror

17 May 2003

Is the eight-year reign of Piers Morgan at the Daily Mirror drawing to a gentle close? Last October I wrote, ‘My bet is that in six months’ time the Mirror… Read more

If you embarrass the government, you may end up in police custody

10 May 2003

In the early hours of last Thursday, armed police arrived at the Belfast house of Liam Clarke, the Sunday Times’s Northern Ireland editor, and his wife, Kathy. They seized four… Read more

The day Lord Rees-Mogg made me want to cry out in pain

3 May 2003

If William Rees-Mogg had a fan club, I would be its president. I would lick envelopes for him and update his website, which would no doubt be full of his… Read more

It’s a great scoop, but the Telegraph is wrong to suggest that Galloway is a traitor

26 April 2003

The Daily Telegraph’s story about the Scottish Labour MP George Galloway is undoubtedly a cracker. In some respects it reminds me of the Guardian’s demolition of the Tory MP Neil… Read more

Independent readers wanted bad news from Iraq; Mirror readers didn’t

19 April 2003

This was not a good war for newspapers. I am not so much thinking of the journalism. Much of it was excellent, though newspapers are obviously at a disadvantage to… Read more

Nobody really knows how the war is going, partly because our governments lie

5 April 2003

One of the paradoxes of this war is that most of us do not have very much idea of what is going on. That is at any rate what I… Read more

Anti-war journalists hope for the worst – because the worst will prove them right

29 March 2003

We journalists think pretty highly of ourselves. I don’t mean the chap who touches up photographs of Page Three girls; he may have a proper sense of his place in… Read more

We should toast the reporters who are staying behind to cover the war

22 March 2003

President George W. Bush has suggested that journalists should be pulled out of Baghdad. You may ask what business it is of his. On the other hand, perhaps he knows… Read more

Did Mr Mandelson and Mr Blair conspire to get rid of a troublesome editor?

8 March 2003

Our old friend Peter Mandelson is alleged to have engineered the removal of Harry Blackwood, editor of the Hartlepool Mail, a newspaper in Mr Mandelson’s constituency. Tony Blair is supposed… Read more

Carole must have known her film would damage Tony – so why is she still Cherie’s best friend?

22 February 2003

In the media age, life is a soap opera. For a time we are obsessed with a particular storyline. Then it is resolved, we move on to the next story,… Read more

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