Author: David Aaronovitch
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Unsure how to vote? My contortions may help
Source: Times Online - Date: 7:34 PM 5th May 2010
This has been the most peculiar election. To emphasise its strangeness I received a personal letter yesterday from someone I hadn’t seen for a decade, who I am not sure particularly ever liked me (it does happen) and who is now a baroness, asking me to vote for the candidate . . . .
Radicals or conservatives? How can we tell?
Source: Times Online - Date: 12:01 AM 8th Apr 2010
Hardly had the Queenbound PM de-limoed at Buck House than the Tarquins and Henriettas appeared en masse outside our local station. My constituency is a three-way marginal, and the local Conservative candidate arrived earliest, mob-handed, among the Hermès scarves, to leaflet . . . .
The peculiar urge to sack the England captain
Source: Times Online - Date: 12:01 AM 2nd Feb 2010
Footballers are not entirely like the rest of us. Yesterday, in a Sky interview, the former England forward, Steve Bull, was talking about the former England goalkeeper, Bert Williams, who celebrated his 90th birthday on Sunday. “If I get to half that age,” said Bull, . . . .
The Edlington boys are not beyond redemption
Source: Times Online - Date: 10:40 PM 25th Jan 2010
What does the judge know, after all? In passing sentence on the Edlington boys last week Mr Justice Keith described the case as “exceptional”. But in a speech in Gillingham, David Cameron appeared to suggest that it was anything but. Citing a small number of not completely . . . .
The anti-sex brigade are the worst of hypocrites
Source: Times Online - Date: 12:01 AM 5th Jan 2010
Diligent readers of yesterday’s Times will have come across the report about the imprisonment in Malawi of two men who had just become engaged. Tiwonge Chimbalanga — a transvestite — and Steven Monjeza, both in their early twenties, pledged themselves to each other . . . .
Believe it or not, Big Brother is your friend
Source: Times Online - Date: 9:40 PM 7th Dec 2009
Yesterday, on the public noticeboard outside the NatWest bank someone had pinned an unenticing notice for a new play by a local author, entitled Occupied Territory . The first line of the summary informed the reader that, “in a surveillance society the inner landscape of . . . .
Thank goodness for our touchy-feely age
Source: Times Online - Date: 12:01 AM 17th Nov 2009
Forgive me first some snidery concerning our golden past, as depicted to me unceasingly by the army that laments the loss of the old Britain, and — using both the broad brushes of generalisation and the narrow ones of urban myth — paints its picture of a castrated, . . . .
I suggest a night at the theatre, Mr Cameron
Source: Times Online - Date: 11:00 PM 2nd Nov 2009
On Friday morning David Cameron called upon David Miliband to apologise. On Friday evening I went to see a play. The play was Our Class , by the Polish playwright, Tadeusz Slobodzianek. In a series of short “chapters” Slobodzianek followed a group of classmates . . . .
It’s not Facebook that’s doing down our young
Source: Times Online - Date: 12:00 AM 4th Aug 2009
If polo is the most expensive sport in which to participate, then archbishop-baiting must be the cheapest. You don’t even need your own archbishop, but can share one with millions of others. No saddle is required, only a pen. The man in the biretta simply has to offer an . . . .
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