We mustn’t let Murdoch’s cronies change the subject
Is Richard Caseby making a sly joke? I only ask because it’s hard to explain his testimony to the Lords Communication Committee yesterday in any other way. I know the investigations there and in the Leveson inquiry into phone hacking is supposed to be deadly serious, and in the main it has been. But when Mr Caseby, managing editor of The Sun, used the phrase ‘sexing up’ to describe the Guardian’s reporting of the phone hacking affair, the resonance was so brazen that it couldn’t be explained any other way. He has to be kidding.
By Archie Bland | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 12:01 pm
Sneering Sarko caught on camera
How a momentary body language bloomer can set the news agenda
By Archie Bland | The Foreign Desk - International dispatches from Independent correspondents - | Friday, 17 September 2010 at 11:53 am
Of course Julian Assange has an agenda. He has never claimed otherwise
It’s daft to give the Wikileaks founder a hard time for betraying principles of objectivity. Here’s why.
By Archie Bland | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators -, The Foreign Desk - International dispatches from Independent correspondents - | Tuesday, 27 July 2010 at 2:18 pm
The Obama administration’s most unlikeable moment yet
The dismal tale of Shirley Sherrod, and what it tells us about the White House.
By Archie Bland | The Foreign Desk - International dispatches from Independent correspondents - | Thursday, 22 July 2010 at 11:42 am
Donkeygate: a reply
Why finding a parasailing donkey funny does not make you a maniac.
By Archie Bland | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators -, The Foreign Desk - International dispatches from Independent correspondents - | Wednesday, 21 July 2010 at 3:59 pm
Look at Rush Limbaugh’s bedroom!
He’s finally sold his condo in New York, for $11.5m – about $1.5m less than he wanted, but still about $11.49m than I’m happy to see go into his pockets.
We could get into the ironies of Rush Limbaugh owning a place in New York (he says he hates the city and is upping sticks because [...]
By Archie Bland | The Foreign Desk - International dispatches from Independent correspondents - | Tuesday, 13 July 2010 at 2:35 pm
Not a dark continent – but a dark story
In some African cities, heroin addicts are injecting other users’ blood. But is such a rare phenomenon worth reporting on?
By Archie Bland | The Foreign Desk - International dispatches from Independent correspondents - | Tuesday, 13 July 2010 at 12:30 pm
Why the squatter camp should stay
In reply to John Rentoul’s defence of the decision to evict Brian Haw and his cohorts.
By Archie Bland | Eagle Eye - Breaking views from commentators - | Monday, 5 July 2010 at 1:13 pm
Maths genius minus a million
The heroic bloody-mindedness of Grigory Perelman.
By Archie Bland | The Foreign Desk - International dispatches from Independent correspondents - | Thursday, 1 July 2010 at 5:45 pm
Goodluck? You’ll need it, Jonathan, for this game of political football
By intervening with his national team, the Nigerian president is on a hiding to nothing
By Archie Bland | Sport - Latest analysis on the Sporting world -, The Foreign Desk - International dispatches from Independent correspondents - | Thursday, 1 July 2010 at 1:36 pm
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