Gordon Brown has one last gift to give the Labour party he loves
Ed Miliband is hobbled by the myth of the mess Labour left behind. His predecessor can explode it, but he must say where he went wrong
Published by: The Guardian
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Facebook has got it spectacularly wrong on beheading videos
Facebook is making an editorial judgment in allowing head- chopping yet banning breastfeeding. And it is a very bad one
Published by: The Guardian
The GCHQ scandal is not about the Guardian. It is an insult to parliament
Instead of shooting the messenger, MPs should be affronted that they have been kept in the dark over activity they are meant to oversee
Published by: The Guardian
Politics Weekly podcast: NSA enquiry, and US global credibility post shutdown
Tom Clark is joined by Jonathan Freedland, Anne Perkins and Martin Kettle to assess the political mood post Snowden as MPs accuse the Guardian of jeopardising national security. Meanwhile the Commons intelligence and security select committee launches ...
Published by: The Guardian
England v Poland is a home game for both sides – that’s London
The World Cup qualifier in Wembley will attract 18,000 Poles, reinforcing London's credentials as a diverse European city, different from the rest of the UK
Published by: The Guardian
The secret state is just itching to gag the press
Get regulation wrong, and it won't be tales of Cheryl Cole that are censored, but revelations like those of Edward Snowden
Published by: The Guardian
Norman Baker: finally the conspiracy theorists have an inside man
Baker is not the first man to see secret plots in every corner – but he is the first such man to be made the Home Office's no 2
Published by: The Guardian
Antisemitism doesn’t always come doing a Hitler salute
Hatred of Jews is often more coded than explicit, but the Daily Mail's attack on Ralph Miliband pressed all the same old buttons
Published by: The Guardian
Shutting Down the World?
Around the world, the US government shutdown has produced not just bemusement but a growing sense of angst.
Published by: The New York Review of Books
Was the Daily Mail piece antisemitic?
You didn’t have to be Jewish, to adapt an old phrase, to feel queasy at the Daily Mail’s attack on Ralph Miliband. Plenty of Britons, including, I suspect, many Mail readers, will have disliked the notion of condemning a dead man who cannot defend himself and of suggesting a son should be blamed for the words and beliefs of his father.
Published by: The Jewish Chronicle