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It was the last big British press crisis, when journalists sneaked into the hospital room of the gravely injured actor Gordon Kaye and snapped away.
Last Monday, the day dominated by Bin Laden’s death, was also something you may have missed: World Press Freedom Day
In the land of the free, United States broadcasters assumed viewers would be in thrall to the royal wedding.
There is, said the American secretary of defence, no certainty "that a conventional military victory, as commonly defined, can be achieved here".
You can write much of the script for London 2012 already: the tube strikes, the cost over-runs, the security computers that won’t work and the Kazakh weightlifters lost in…
It’s not just Bin Laden’s deputy turning up on channel as-Sahab last week promising to pulverise the United Kingdom’s honours committee for knighting Salman Rushdie, nor the…
Consider the Jim Webb phenomenon. Two decades ago, he was a loyal Republican serving in the upper reaches of Ronnie Reagan’s administration. Six months ago, he was a maverick…
Saddam Hussein has not got much joy from the obituary writers. He is hanged by the neck, and his death brings no mourning. Wrap the corpse in a flimsy sheet and bury it deep. But…
Peter Preston, former editor of the Guardian, recalls the birth and growth of the Mail & Guardian.
”Disasters are always most poignant, most chilling, when you know the terrain and the people. So I had stood on the sea wall in Galle, watching kids fly kites, a few months…
So, in an instant, the pages of history were reordered. London bomb coverage, pages one to 16; Africa and climate change, pages 17 to 18. If the bombers wanted both to mark the…
Here, maybe, is the way the Hollywood world ends: not with a bang, but a stinker. Enter another bloated Spielberg epic, weighed down by -million in computer contrivances and…
Only six weeks after President George W Bush’svictory, the vibrations continue euphoric. Depressed Democrats wonder if they could ever win again. Pundits ponder theses about…
History will judge us. Well, of course. It’s what politicians in a jam always say when the judges of the moment grow baleful. But what, pray, if there are no such sages left?…
Al-Qaeda isn’t finished. Its structure – devolved, barely organised by conventional standards – can survive any number of strikes at individual bases.
There are some good deeds in this bad old world. There are some bitter enmities and bloody wars that can end in peace. There is always hope, practical hope — if only you want…
Even the ambition is gargantuan. Only an American pollster such as the Pew Research Centre would contemplate asking 38 000 people in 44 countries (speaking 63 languages and…
