Tax avoidance and social death: how shame could tame fraud
Everyone is trying to work out how to clamp down on benefit cheats and tax-dodgers. How about some old-fashioned stigma?What a tsunami of high-minded policy chat on the airwaves: dilemmas Simon Hoggart neatly sums up in his cheerfully brutal way. In th...
How the tabloids created the need for superinjunctions and now imperil the rule of law
Stephen Sedley, a former high court and appeal court judge, has made one of the most sober and sensible contributions to the often fevered debate over privacy. In fact, his article in the London Review of Books, The Goodwin and Giggs show, is probably ...
The Wayne Rooney affair is serious and sad
The England footballer has lost sight of his talent; the woman who brought him down has none of her ownMore palaver over Wayne Rooney and his private life, served up as entertaining scandal but actually enormously serious and sad. Rooney is portrayed ...
Beautiful game is not a political football | Paul MacInnes
Labour used football to try and show it was in touch with real people, but they did not make it a quasi-religion – it already was
There is nothing worse than treating an issue like a political football. Especially when that issue is football. Treating football like a political...
Terry, Bridge and the art of holding a grudge | Kira Cochrane
Terry versus Bridge, Brown versus Blair again . . . What can we learn from these spats about the art of holding a grudge?
For anyone who enjoys seeing bitterness and bile traded in public, who likes the glint and gleam of a metaphorical knife being wielded, the past...


Cameron: over-confident, cavalier and careless… and still on top | Andrew Rawnsley