Columnists

John Bird

Big business can give us all a hand up

John Bird

"Businesses need not just our anger at their, at times, lopsided prosperity, but our encouragement to get on with job creation"

Samira Ahmed

Samira Ahmed: Tarantino triggers a new racial debate

Samira Ahmed

"Does the bloody revenge in Django Unchained make up for the extended racial humiliation that precedes it?"

Paul McNamee

No, Minister

Paul McNamee

"Ring your local MP and ask if they think they are worth an eye-watering salary leap. Let us know"

Paul McNamee

Thinking In Step

Paul McNamee

"It’s about doing the right thing - making society a place where those in most need are looked out for"

Paul McNamee

Happy New Year!

Paul McNamee

"Here’s to 2013, to you, to our vendors, to a future burning brighter"

John Bird

It’s too easy to get hacked off…

John Bird

"I have never developed the fascination with ‘who’s shagging who’ but know that this is an insatiable marketplace"

Samira Ahmed

Samira Ahmed: How the Middle East became another planet

Samira Ahmed

"Has the appearance of western affluence and shared consumer totems made it easier to turn a blind eye to protest in the Middle East?"

Paul McNamee

Merry Christmas

Paul McNamee

"There is nothing wrong with a bit of sentimentality from time to time"

John Bird

Poverty is the backbone of the marketplace

John Bird

"Until we get poor people involved in their own exit out of poverty, we will see its continuation"

Rachel Johnson caricature

Rachel Johnson: I've just realised - I'm middle-aged!

Rachel Johnson

"I recently listened to a whole edition of Gardeners’ Question Time without vaulting to the off button at the words 'Bob Flowerdew'"

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