It’s for the courts to take away our liberty, not a politician with a suspicious mind
Saturday, January 29th, 2005Another of our essential civil liberties under threat from a deeply illiberal government
Entries in January, 2005
Who Believes in Vera Drake? (with postscript of 11 Feb 05)
Saturday, January 29th, 2005Is the abortionist with a heart of gold too good to be true, and the situation depicted by Mike Leigh too black-and-white, or is that an unduly cynical view?
Detention without trial – Guardian Article
Friday, January 28th, 2005An article by me in the Guardian 28 January
You Couldn’t Make It Up department (5): I went like, I dunno any grammar, do I?
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005The chairman of the Campaign for Real Education uses the New Grammar himself
Prince Harry: Much Ado About virtually Nothing
Sunday, January 16th, 2005The international as well as the national media should apologise for making such a pompous fuss about an absurdly trivial incident
Jerry Springer and the Christian fundamentalists
Wednesday, January 12th, 2005How the UK’s home-grown Christian Right tried to stop us seeing an important and serious musical-cum-opera on television
The tale of a toad
Wednesday, January 12th, 2005An old shaggy toad story, more or less as told by the late Sir John Killick
Letter in Times: Imprisonment without Trial
Saturday, January 8th, 2005Letter in the Times on 28 January on Imprisonment without Trial
Cycling in Ethiopia
Friday, January 7th, 2005Why Ethiopia is special: recollections of famine relief: and a vivid illustrated account of a cycle tour of the northern areas of that beautiful country
Christmas in the sun at Sitges
Thursday, January 6th, 2005Share our Christmas in the Spanish sun en famille; and look at the pictures
