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Natasha Walter
The victor of the news war has been the internet
10 April 2003
This war has brought home to so many of us that, although we live in a world with an endless deluge of information, that doesn't necessarily make us feel well informed.
Would there have been this war if there was true equality for women?
03 April 2003
Even when women get to carry out orders, that doesn't mean that they are orders women have participated in forging
How long will our interest last when the soldiers go?
27 March 2003
Some optimistic commentators are now saying that the protesters may not have stopped the war, but they are having an influence on the way it is being waged.
Don't idealise the soldiers fighting this unjust war
20 March 2003
Tony Blair has entered a plea yesterday for the country to stop bickering and to unite behind our armed forces.
Gentleness: the latest sensation in art
27 February 2003
It is not only in visual art that people are looking for something quietly reassuring in these dark days
Most Iraqis want regime change, but not war
20 February 2003
It is not the case that those who argue for peace are arguing for complete inaction against Saddam
Politicians are out of step with the people
14 February 2003
War is pretty much inevitable - but that doesn't mean protest is pointless, either in the short or long term
Mr Prescott has betrayed his own tough rhetoric
06 February 2003
The march of concrete over the remaining green places in the South-east seems inexorable
Shop till you drop (and ignore the true cost)
30 January 2003
After all, if you've got some spare cash, do you want to put it in a pension that may turn out to be worthless?
Why are we still indifferent to the fate of others?
23 January 2003
Once the war began Britain, not Germany, took the lead in barring escape routes for Jewish refugees
Drivers should pay up and stop complaining
16 January 2003
Car users have been left alone so long that they have come to see themselves as inviolable
Protests against war with Iraq are just beginning
11 January 2003
There will certainly come a point when people start to turn from apathy to action on the streets
All victims of murder should be treated equally
09 January 2003
In a video game for young men, the fun includes picking up prostitutes and then killing them
Why are we so vicious to women like Cherie Blair?
02 January 2003
The choice of Cherie as the arch-villain of our times is ludicrous proof of the misogyny at work in the media
Why can't we see the value of our countryside?
26 December 2002
If only the politicians could understand ordinary people's feeling for our wild, natural landscapes
How we forgot about the women of Afghanistan
19 December 2002
It shows just how long our concern will probably last for those affected by our next military adventure
Why I hope Cherie Blair has seen off her critics
11 December 2002
She is being judged not just for a bad business decision, but for being a woman who does too much
People are interested in policy, not politicians
05 December 2002
If you follow 'Big Brother', you can influence the drama; in the debate on EU enlargement, you can't
Rape has become a trivialised crime
28 November 2002
It is hard for women to argue that rape is a grim crime, and those who are affected by it may be in need of help
Sadly, it's only men who are considered underpaid
21 November 2002
Firemen bring in £21,000 - just over median earnings - but for most women that's way out of reach
One more cup of coffee, one more starving family
14 November 2002
We are all connected in a web of inequality, even in some of our most apparently harmless moments
Miss World and the power of female protest
07 November 2002
You don't have to take the beauty contest too seriously to realise a boycott can be an effective symbolic act
I can't blame Ulrika for not naming the man
24 October 2002
The onus now is not on Jonsson to go to the police; it is for the police to come to her
Weddings are fashionable, but not necessary
18 October 2002
If you state that you're not married, people assume that you are just working up to sending out invitations
Sometimes sisters can do it for themselves
10 October 2002
'Tipping the Velvet' is a confident tale of lesbian culture. It is depressing to see it as a romp for the boys
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