Deborah Orr
Deborah Orr: One more inquiry isn't going to help
I don't believe a public inquiry into the Baby P case is necessary. I think the failings in Haringey are already perfectly clear. Why should they not be? They are, after all, the same failings that are revealed in almost every public inquiry, into almost every public service dereliction.
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Deborah Orr: That's the answer to surviving the recession: a new identity
Saturday, 29 November 2008
Of course, the recession isn't funny. But sometimes you have to laugh. The media is hungry for real-life stories of sudden and decisive changes in circumstances, but Frank's picaresque is so outrageous that names have had to be changed to protect the guilty.
Deborah Orr: The good old days? I don't think so...
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
It is important to remember that inadequate parenting is not some modern ill
Deborah Orr: It's easy to praise the public on decisions that don't matter
Saturday, 22 November 2008
People power, as it pertains to television anyway, is proving to be a tricky beast.
Deborah Orr: For most women, prostitution is not a life choice
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
"It is important to remember that men who use prostitutes are often damaged too"
Helpless children get trampled in the rush to pass judgement
Saturday, 15 November 2008
Deborah Orr: Great effort is made to keep children in the homes where they are being ‘neglected’
Deborah Orr: Now is not the time to be frugal, apparently
Saturday, 15 November 2008
Lots of economists have taken it upon themselves to warn that tax cuts won't stimulate consumer spending, because people will save their windfalls, understanding that they'll have to pay them back later.
Deborah Orr: When doctors and parents clash
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
There was no need for the authorities to have been so heavy-handed with Hannah Jones
Deborah Orr: A sure sign of change: a young family is in the White House
Saturday, 8 November 2008
They are the first couple with young children to have got there since American women got the vote
Deborah Orr: Change is what the Scots want too
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Glenrothes is not about the Union, even if Gordon Brown likes to think it is
Deborah Orr: Can we agree on this: you don't discuss other people's sex lives
Saturday, 1 November 2008
No BBC executive has had the courage to point out one obvious fact about this week's furore over the lewd on-air behaviour of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand. The obvious fact is that no other institution galvanises public debate about cultural issues in quite the way that the corporation does.
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