19 Apr 2003

19 April 2003

Columnists

Inside my local nuclear bunker the old fears suddenly seem comical

Whenever I read of a great wave of public alarm,’ my grandfather used to say as he peered over the top of his Daily Telegraph, ‘I am gripped by a massive calm.’ I do not know what Grandad thought of the nuclear shadow said to be hanging over us through the Sixties and Seventies; indeed,

Any other business

Stephen Glover

Independent readers wanted bad news from Iraq; Mirror readers didn’t

This was not a good war for newspapers. I am not so much thinking of the journalism. Much of it was excellent, though newspapers are obviously at a disadvantage to 24-hour rolling news channels, which not only provide breaking stories but also analysis from people who surprisingly often know what they are talking about. Newspapers