Peter Preston
IT’S a weird dislocation. We Brits know — or at least we’re relentlessly told — that bankrupt, stubborn, austerity-crazed continental Europe is in a terrible mess.
Published 29 May, 2012 12:00am
SO, at the going down of the sun, we remember them. But then night falls. The last warrior who fought in 1914-18 is dead. No longer there to wear a poppy, to stand at the Cenotaph in central London
Published 15 Nov, 2011 12:43am
WASHINGTON This is a delight of a summer book history for the beach, politics for the deckchair, and waspish...
Published 25 Jul, 2010 12:00am
LONDON We`re so used to Silvio Berlusconi that we barely raise an eyebrow. What, a new Italian law to stop...
Published 13 Jul, 2010 12:00am
LONDON John Humphrys chose to launch his grand tour of the union from Frankfurt for BBC Radio 4`s Today programme ...
Published 15 Jun, 2010 12:00am
IT`S an exceptionally inconvenient truth. Only one American in three believes that human beings are responsible for...
Published 09 Mar, 2010 12:00am
IT is the old chicken and egg question, posed in its most recent incarnation by that Cesare Borgia of Pakistani...
Published 17 Nov, 2009 12:00am
LONDON Rocks, hard places and politics go together like awful days, Copenhagen and Barack Obama. Why did the...
Published 06 Oct, 2009 12:00am
WHEN something you`re doing is going badly wrong, the options are always limited. You can carry on, spade sinking...
Published 14 Jul, 2009 12:00am
DRAW a line at $2,700 per capita income per year, around $7 a day. The bottom billion of Professor Collier`s last...
Published 24 Mar, 2009 12:00am
The question – from Gaza to Pristina – is whether peace arrives top down or bottom up, whether it's ordinary folk or...
Published 17 Feb, 2009 12:00am
The question - from Gaza to Pristina - is whether peace arrives top down or bottom up, whether its ordinary folk or...
Published 17 Feb, 2009 12:00am
IT must be the future — the most feted, most dynamically charged news website of the lot. Eight million unique ...
Published 17 Jan, 2009 12:00am
THE easy equation says `news sells`, and it often does, in a way. For a pre-budget paper, or one that leads on...
Published 06 Dec, 2008 12:00am
LONDON: Psst! Wanna find the issue that kiboshed an election? The one they call Bottled Brown? Come stroll with me...
Published 10 Oct, 2007 12:00am
LONDON: Fed up with newspaper woe? Bored to distraction by dirges about digital demise? Then – like a dose of salts ...
Published 11 Jun, 2007 12:00am
LONDON: New year after year starts with new records of pain and loss among journalists. So 167 reporters, editors,...
Published 08 Jan, 2007 12:00am
LONDON: This injunction couldn't be clearer. "The United States will not be able to achieve its goals in the Middle...
Published 12 Dec, 2006 12:00am
LONDON It seems such a tiny, insignificant thing. Why worry about planting a little propaganda and bribing a few...
Published 06 Dec, 2005 12:00am
LONDON: Here is one terrorist threat even Tony Blair doesn’t need to vamp up. It is self-evidently real and ...
Published 30 Dec, 2003 12:00am
