Category: Miscellaneous

The current cliché “At the end of the day” continues to proliferate like wasps.

Reactions to my Times letter arguing for acknowledgement of the need for UN Security Council authority for any pre-emptive military action against Iraq: e-mail messages profound and crazy

What makes The Times sanguine?

Implications of the Queen Mother’s death: what the turnout for the funeral doesn’t mean, and the difficulties of abolishing the monarchy.

Implications of the Queen Mother’s death: a remarkable letter in The Times,

the Moore-Sixsmith affair and Peter Mandelson (all acquitted but sacked anyway)

Howlers from the Sunday Times and Guardian

More current political clichés