en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:42:13 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Libby Purves Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT 2009-06-29T12:28:43Z Over the weeks since the G20 riots and the death of Ian Tomlinson, after the damning phone- videos and 200 other allegations against the police, evidence has been heard by the Home Affairs Select Committee. Today we shall learn what it made of it. Libby Purves Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:26 GMT 2009-06-21T09:23:27Z The word “digital” joins a long line of adjectives too exciting for their own good. Look back in the history of hype and you find its ancestors: “electropathic”, “atomic”, “computerised”, “turbo” or just “state-of-the art”. With Lord Carter of Barnes's report on Digital Britain, overstimulation peaked. Libby Purves Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:19 GMT 2009-06-14T08:23:20Z I am baffled, peering at peers. Confused of Dunwich, that's me. It is plain that we need a House of Lords, if only to spot the weird loopholes in Bills shunted through from a House of Commons hysterically distracted by electoral needs. It is equally plain that the House was formerly overstocked with pointless hereditaries. But reform has been left half-finished, like a bankrupt resort hotel with wires hanging out of the walls and cement-mixers blocking the corridors. Libby Purves Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:14 GMT 2009-06-15T05:46:38Z Heaven save us, am I weary of personality in politics! Bored of red dresses and amateur psychology, body language, stiletto jokes and balls about who-hates-Balls! It goes beyond party - I hate both Mandelson's analysis and hostile analyses of Mandelson, David Cameron's damn bike and Margaret Beckett's caravan. I do not care who is “comfortable in their skin” or whether they “find a voice”.