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Catherine Bennett is a British journalist working for The Guardian and The Observer, where she writes columns on politics and culture. She was educated at Hertford College, Oxford.

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At long last, a newsreader who made us face reality | Catherine Bennett

Considering its pioneering work for the rehabilitation of freakshows, it was not immediately clear what Channel Five intended when it invited James Partridge, who has a disfigured face, to read its lunchtime news bulletins last week. Partridge, who ...

From CATHERINE BENNETT, Comment Is Free,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: BBC,  Walter Cronkite,  Fearne Cotton,  Fiona Bruce,  Kate Moss

Is England's World Cup bid in the bag? I really hope not | Catherine Bennett

A few years back, the president of Fifa, a Mr Sepp Blatter, proposed a novel way of making women's football more popular. Why, he suggested, did the players not wear "tighter shorts … to create a more female aesthetic"? Though he was roundly ridiculed ...

From CATHERINE BENNETT, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mulberry (designer),  Sepp Blatter,  David Triesman,  Barack Obama,  Sarah Brown

Welcome to the age of the eco-martyr. God help us

Following Mr Justice Burton's ruling that green beliefs should enjoy the same protection as religious ones, many committed recyclers will have been wondering how green you have to be to become unsackable. Would buying Duchy Originals do the trick? Or ...

From CATHERINE BENNETT, Comment Is Free,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  Michael Crichton,  Al Gore,  David Miliband,  Alan Johnson

Politics Weekly: Europe and the Tories, and the row over the government's drugs adviser

We tried to change the record, but we found it was stuck – Europe and the Tories, and MPs' expenses – the tunes at Westminster just don't change these days. But – we promise – Politics Weekly finds a fresh angle, by putting a new team round the ...

From TOM CLARK, ALLEGRA STRATTON, FRANCESCA PANETTA, JACKIE ASHLEY, CATHERINE BENNETT, ANNE PERKINS, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: UK Conservative Party,  David Cameron,  Alan Johnson

Sorry, Gordon, but your body politic doesn't match Putin's

Before Tony Blair resigns himself to a future in commerce, his supporters should ask themselves if they have, truly, done everything possible to make him European president. Did Mr Brown, in his encomium, mention Mr Blair's command of the tennis court? ...

From CATHERINE BENNETT, Guardian Unlimited,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Tony Blair,  Alastair Campbell,  Barack Obama,  Gordon Brown,  Nicolas Sarkozy

No trafficking? There's a lot suffering

If the sex business, like so many other trades, awarded prizes to its favourite journalists, there is no doubt who would come first in the Services to Prostitution Awards 2009. Since his article last week, which likened the government's fictions about ...

From CATHERINE BENNETT, Guardian Unlimited,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Denis MacShane,  Saddam Hussein,  Home Office,  Harriet Harman,  Jacqui Smith

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Autobiography | Book review

For the Queen Mother, writes William Shawcross, as he trudges through the second half of her life, "one decade glided into another, with the basic pattern of her days, weeks, months and years being fairly constant". For much of his biography he is ...

From CATHERINE BENNETT, Guardian Unlimited,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: British National Party,  Princess Margaret,  William Shawcross,  Camilla Parker Bowles,  Wallis Simpson

Lenny Henry v Nick Griffin. I'd certainly stay up to watch that

Dare one watch Nick Griffin on this week's Question Time or would it be safer to hide in the cupboard under the stairs? Possibly switching off the television, en route, in case some of his power somehow seeps out of the set, penetrates the layers of ...

From CATHERINE BENNETT, Guardian Unlimited,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Nick Griffin,  Lenny Henry,  BBC,  Jack Straw,  Adolf Hitler

Will they still need us, will they still feed us when we're 66?

George Osborne insists that repeated allusions, in his conference speech, to the much-loved High School Musical song, We're All in This Together, were inadvertent. If so, perhaps a powerful unconscious desire to emphasise the fresh and youthful aspects ...

From CATHERINE BENNETT, Comment Is Free,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: George Osborne,  Eric Pickles,  Lord Turner,  Anne Robinson,  Philip Roth

The silence of the ladies who lunch

Cherie Blair: an apology. On a number of occasions this column has contributed to criticism of the former first lady, to the effect that her relish for the perks and visibility of her office was matched only by her towering lack of dignity. Her ...

From CATHERINE BENNETT, The Observer,  3 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Brown,  Cherie Blair,  Clive James,  Michelle Obama,  BBC

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