The Guardian
Why do MPs send nude pictures of themselves?
Adam Dyster has gone to work for the shadow Defra secretary Steve Reed. I admit this is not an appointment…
Could I find a girlfriend on a Guardian Blind Date?
Was a Guardian Blind Date the answer?
Chris Mullin’s eye for the absurd remains as keen as ever
Having retired from parliament in 2010, Mullin has less insider knowledge than before, but the political one-liners in his latest diaries are still highly entertaining
The Guardian’s shameful double standards
The Guardian thinks of itself as Britain’s fearless liberal conscience, trigger-sensitive to racist ‘dog whistles’ in the language and editorial…
The Guardian goes for J.K. Rowling
It seems that taking gratuitous swipes at J.K. Rowling has become something of a competition for liberal broadsheets on both sides…
Foreign opportunists are turning Britain into a corporate car-boot sale
The snatching of a 12 per cent stake in BT by French entrepreneur Patrick Drahi, last seen here when he…
There is no justification for supporting the IRA
Roy Greenslade held a number of prominent positions in Fleet Street over the course of a long career. But he…
Fascism: the most abused term in America
A well-dressed young man walks down the Potsdamer Straße in Berlin, days before the end of March in 1933. He’s…
Suzanne Moore: I was hurt that so many of my ‘colleagues’ denounced me
I have been trying to write about a great unpleasantness for some time: the trans debate that we don’t really…
Cartoonists have a right to free speech
I’m no fan of Steve Bell, the Guardiancartoonist. I can’t say I’ve ever laughed at one of his squibs, which…
Dear Mary: I used to work with Boris Johnson. Why does no one believe how fun he was?
Q. It was 10 p.m. by the time the canapés appeared and by then it was already too late. The…
The mind-readers who know we’re all racists inside
For months I’ve been looking forward to the Guardian’s much-heralded report on racism in Britain, which was unveiled this week.…
The real reason I’m a target for the twitchfork mob
Shortly after midnight on 1 January my phone began to vibrate repeatedly. Happy New Year messages from absent friends? No,…
Poking fun at the royals is good for the monarchy
Isn’t Meghan fabulous? Hasn’t she totally brought the monarchy into the 21st century? Doesn’t she make Kate look like such…
Another year, another tax leak – and the usual annual festival of hypocrisy
Stories about members of the establishment using offshore tax shelters — ooh er missus! — come along about once a…
A big hand for the two-faced tax hacks of the Guardian
Something odd happened at the Guardian on Monday as the paper’s editorial staff were basking in the glow of their…
Matt Ridley’s diary: Why a Guardian contributor wants me beheaded
Martin Williams, former head of the government’s air quality science unit, has declared that the reason we have a problem…
Don’t blame the Guardian if criminals are getting better at hiding online. Blame iTunes and Netflix
I wouldn’t wish to deny that all drug dealers and crime lords read the Guardian. Indeed, check the circulation figures,…
The Edward Snowden scandal viewed from planet Guardian
Last summer a National Security Agency (NSA) contractor called Edward Snowden leaked a vast trove of secret information on the…
Portrait of a Guardian music critic
We critics seldom write our memoirs, perhaps because we skulk away our lives in dark corners, avoiding the public gaze,…
