13 Dec 2003

13 December 2003

Columnists

Sanctions may make us feel good, but they will not topple Mugabe

Margaret Thatcher was right and Thabo Mbeki is right. British-led sanctions against a renegade regime in Central Africa — be it Ian Smith’s when the country was called Rhodesia, or Robert Mugabe’s when it had been renamed Zimbabwe — are a counterproductive response to an unacceptable government. My family and I lived in Rhodesia from

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Stephen Glover

Is BBC 2 becoming so chippy that it will lose the plot — and therefore its point?

Jane Root, the controller of BBC 2, has decided to axe the award- winning current affairs programme Correspondent. Thirty years ago there were a number of such programmes on the BBC, and the disappearance of one of them would scarcely have been noticed. But in Greg Dyke’s increasingly dumbed-down BBC, Correspondent is probably unique, and