Bett Nakagawa

Bett Nakagawa commissions the argument pages and chairs the editorial board. She reports to the publisher, not to the editor-in-chief, and the two of them speak about coverage exactly never — an arrangement she describes as the least convenient and most important thing about this job.

Work by Nakagawa

LetterLetters

'You Took The Warning Off Because It Was Ugly, Not Because It Was Wrong'

Five readers on the removal of four disclaimer layers, one of them a retired trading-standards officer who has been arguing with this newspaper for a year and has never yet been wrong about anything.

By Bett Nakagawa · September 4, 2026

LetterLetters

You Are Not Brave For Printing Corrections, You Are Just Slow

Four readers on the corrections archive, the Null Result series, our headline procedure, and one very long complaint about the horoscopes.

By Bett Nakagawa · August 8, 2026

EditorialOpinion

Twenty-Two Per Cent Of Our Income Comes From Someone We Cannot Name.

Twenty-two per cent of this newspaper's income arrives from a donor we have never identified. The board has voted three times on returning it and the margin narrows every time. This is the reasoning, including both dissents, printed at the dissenters' insistence.

By Bett Nakagawa · August 6, 2026

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Work by Nakagawa

'You Took The Warning Off Because It Was Ugly, Not Because It Was Wrong'

You Are Not Brave For Printing Corrections, You Are Just Slow

Twenty-Two Per Cent Of Our Income Comes From Someone We Cannot Name.