http://journalisted.com/david-aaronovitch en-gb http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4607536.ece One must be empathic. 2008-08-26 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4607536.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/diet_and_fitness/article4538627.ece In the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's wonderful new book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, he writes about how he likes to compete in a marathon every winter and a triathlon every summer. 2008-08-16 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/diet_and_fitness/article4538627.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4517674.ece Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature are entitled to grand pronouncements, or else what is it for? So Doris Lessing, last winter, anathematised the entire internet, declaring that it had “seduced a whole generat 2008-08-13 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4517674.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4460676.ece Some long while ago, far away in the vast, misty caverns of time, there was a by-election in Glasgow that Labour lost. It may be hard to recall the debates in the Labour Party of the last weekend but one, yet historica 2008-08-05 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4460676.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/diet_and_fitness/article4442090.ece One week to go and I am as quietly confident of doing well in the Docklands triathlon as Gordon Brown is of winning the next election.Everything has, somehow, not gone quite right, and the biggest thing that has not gon 2008-08-02 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/diet_and_fitness/article4442090.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4419238.ece All of us lie, but I do it less than most people. I am not talking here about minor evasion, complimenting a neighbour on his lamentable taste or falsely reassuring a friend about her steatopygic tendencies. Last year a Dr Vasudevi 2008-07-29 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4419238.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4374704.ece It amuses me that some of those who criticise the present US Administration for its Manichaeism - its division of the world into good and evil - themselves allocate all past badness to Bush and all prospective goodness to Obama. 2008-07-22 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4374704.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4333210.ece I awoke to an absurd discussion on the radio yesterday morning. Some chap from a northwestern accident and emergency ward was reacting to what he and many others believed were government plans to ferry young knife carriers around casualty depa 2008-07-15 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4333210.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/traineo/article4315466.ece Part two of this anti-epic of mine - trying to get ready for the London Triathlon next month - begins in the rare intense sunshine of an English stately home in early summer. 2008-07-12 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/traineo/article4315466.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4244448.ece In an internal shrine set up to worship my own personal gods, there is a niche allocated to the television documentary producer, Roger Graef. I have never known Graef to make a silly film or to hold anything other than a sensible opini 2008-07-01 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4244448.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4228144.ece In the 1906 general election - a landslide defeat for the Conservatives - the constituency of Henley, then South Oxfordshire, was won by a Liberal named Philip Morrell. I wouldn't have known this about Boris Johnson 2008-06-28 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4228144.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4200607.ece Maybe this time,” sang Lord Malloch-Brown on the Today programme yesterday. “Something's bound to begin. It's got to happen, happen sometime. Maybe this time I'll win.” Well, 2008-06-24 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4200607.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4182891.ece This new weekly column will be a rummage in the great toy chest that is the Times Archive. Big and small stories, battles and first nights, obits and ads will all provide the inspiration, and I will be happy to take any reader' 2008-06-21 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4182891.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4152102.ece It isn't a surprise to me that the public - as measured by an opinion poll - should have supported the decision of David Davis to resign as an MP on a point of principle. 2008-06-17 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4152102.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4099707.ece The British”, my American friend said, “are a nation of hysterics masquerading as stoics. 2008-06-10 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4099707.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4053603.ece Sisyphus (and this is true) was sentenced by the gods to roll a huge rock up a steep hill for eternity. Each time he would bring the boulder just about to the summit, and then something would cause the blasted stone to roll right d 2008-06-03 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4053603.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4009758.ece A the beginning of 2006 a series of meetings between Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and their entourages, began to break down. 2008-05-27 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4009758.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3964956.ece Haemadipsa picta, the Borneo tiger leech, sits on a leaf in the rainforest, waiting for something, anything to pass by: an orang-utan, you, my daughter Eve, whatever. Actually it sort of stands there li 2008-05-20 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3964956.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3919327.ece We were four men of a certain age, sitting above the pews at the altar end of Great St Mary's Church in Cambridge, late last Friday afternoon. 2008-05-13 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3919327.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3876301.ece I heard the Prime Minister on Sunday telling Andrew Marr: “I am listening to what people have said; I have heard what people have said,” and I thought: “Oh bugger. 2008-05-06 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3876301.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3835364.ece If it is a matter of faith with you that Gordon Brown is mad, terminally dithering, responsible for all the ills you suffer while entirely innocent of all the benefits you enjoy, sub-Stalinesque, constitutionally unable to empa 2008-04-29 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3835364.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3792478.ece Are CNN anchors the grandest beings on the planet? On the other side of the Atlantic last week, as Pope Benedict visited the New Rome, I saw CNN's Wolf Blitzer introducing an item about the pontiff's progress; and, as t 2008-04-22 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3792478.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3746592.ece I would define a moment of double respect as being when, say, the Pope addresses both Houses of Congress, or - as happened again last week - when that great institution the BBC quotes an expert from that even greater institutio 2008-04-15 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3746592.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3701866.ece Debo was always my mother's second favourite Mitford sister. 2008-04-08 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3701866.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3656038.ece Man must strive and striving he must err”, wrote Goethe. 2008-04-01 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3656038.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3648835.ece Last week, irked by what I saw as the use of wild exaggeration by church leaders in the embryology Bill debate, I challenged one of them - the Bishop of Durham - to justify one of his more outrageous claims. Tom Wright had 2008-03-31 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3648835.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3613649.ece Traditionally Easter used to be the time when hellfire and stoppage was preached from the platforms of competing teachers' conferences. These days, regrettably, the Churches are getting in on the act. Over the weekend the fabul 2008-03-25 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3613649.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article3597872.ece On Desert Island Discs, that musical Who's Who of the British ruling classes, last week's guest was the veteran Establishment antiestablishmentarian, Tariq Ali. In a charming programme Ali - now in his early sixtie 2008-03-24 00:01:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article3597872.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3571831.ece Less ordure would have been heaped upon the august head of the former Attorney-General, Lord Goldsmith, had he recommended the humane gassing of all Britain's cats. Even the tentative suggestion of a national oath earned not ju 2008-03-18 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3571831.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3525291.ece Can one imagine two more zoomorphic politicians? Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson are both, for me, recent escapees from David Attenborough programmes. Ken slides out of Life in Cold Blood, like some Lambeth axolotl, emerg 2008-03-11 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3525291.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3478858.ece Until I was 28, and got my first job in television, neither my family nor I had any money. One result of this relative penury was that, by my mid-20s I had only been in an aeroplane four times: twice in infancy aboard inter 2008-03-04 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3478858.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3434198.ece It has become an intelligentsia default position, or IDP for short, that we in Britain are - as one of my favourite intellectuals put it the other day - “sleepwalking into a surveillance society”. The Oxford academi 2008-02-26 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3434198.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3402330.ece One of Margaret Thatcher's celebrated recent invocations was, at the time, accounted the most disgraceful. 2008-02-23 00:01:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3402330.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article3411317.ece Anyone who thinks names are unimportant,” said my friend, the psychoanalyst, “might like to consider what was going on in Henry James's mind when he gave the experienced older woman in The Golden Bowl the name Fanny Assingham. 2008-02-21 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article3411317.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3393128.ece Even though Dr Finlay was a long-dead Scottish Nationalist, he was still a good man and his patients and his viewers loved him. Beamed into 1960s city homes from the 1920s semi-rural Scottish town of Tannochbrae, Dr Finlay repr 2008-02-19 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3393128.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3353088.ece My instincts are, I hope, as savage as the next columnist's. 2008-02-12 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3353088.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/article3336139.ece IF ANY STORY blind-sided me last year, it was the press campaign on behalf of the “NatWest Three”, a trio of unappealing and seemingly amoral alleged fraudsters who the Americans - takers of a tougher line on white-collar cri 2008-02-08 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/article3336139.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3308248.ece In recent days, and unsurprisingly, it has become common to hear the mournless rites being read for liberal interventionism. If anyone has opined publicly about Afghanistan in the last week - and plenty did - it was to regret o... 2008-02-05 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3308248.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3267123.ece A moment in a Florida gym last week got me thinking. As we doomed men and women toiled sweatily away on treadmills and ellipticals (has anyone ever thought of hooking all these machines up to the national grid?), overhead jumbo... 2008-01-29 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3267123.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3227701.ece Miami, Monday, and one of the big stories on the US networks is the disappearance of Oprah Winfrey from the Obama campaign trail, where once she was a highly visible platform-booster. The back story has been that Winfrey... 2008-01-22 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3227701.ece http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2008/01/a-green-light-f.html If you're male and well endowed, then the next time you're in Stockholm Mimmi would like you to call. “I'm an elegant sexy Swedish woman,” she tells visitors to her website, “that [sic] is turned on by seducing men...” The... 2008-01-16 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2008/01/a-green-light-f.html http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3187422.ece If you're male and well endowed, then the next time you're in Stockholm Mimmi would like you to call. 2008-01-15 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3187422.ece http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2008/01/white-woman-v-b.html By late tonight (Iranian gunboats permitting) Barack Obama could be the surf-away leader for the Democratic presidential nomination - carried there not so much on a wave, as in a gush. How odd it is that we in the West... 2008-01-13 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2008/01/white-woman-v-b.html http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2008/01/the-year-in-ide.html Towards the end of 2007, in the Iranian city of Kermanshah, the authorities put to death a young man of 21 for the crime of sodomy. The importance of this act of judicial murder was not primarily that the man... 2008-01-13 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2008/01/the-year-in-ide.html http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2008/01/the-second-plan.html Kingsley Amis's son has always had plenty of people to hate him. His imagined patrimony, his early success, his implausible virtuosity and his fearlessness have ensured that many who weren't actually offended by him were envious. It was probably inevitable... 2008-01-13 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2008/01/the-second-plan.html http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article3170915.ece Kingsley Amis's son has always had plenty of people to hate him. 2008-01-11 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article3170915.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3148898.ece By late tonight (Iranian gunboats permitting) Barack Obama could be the surf-away leader for the Democratic presidential nomination - carried there not so much on a wave, as in a gush. 2008-01-08 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3148898.ece http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/12/in-defence-of-h.html At my daughter's Christmas concert on Monday night, none of the Tamil parents knew the words to the carols, so the Jews had to sing twice as loud. The next morning I read Libby Purves's elegant reproach to the great... 2007-12-27 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/12/in-defence-of-h.html http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/12/be-liberal-but.html Yesterday, the day on which the former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer of Thoroton effectively killed the Government's 42-day detention plan, was also the 43rd day that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito spent in custody in Italy in connection with the... 2007-12-27 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/12/be-liberal-but.html http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3075389.ece At my daughter's Christmas concert on Monday night, none of the Tamil parents knew the words to the carols, so the Jews had to sing twice as loud. 2007-12-20 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3075389.ece http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/12/shadowy-donors.html One of the curiosities of the Abrahams affair was the suggestion that it all had to do, somehow, with Jewish power, through (naturally) the less obviously Protocol-ish medium of support for Israel. There was the Telegraph front page showing Mr... 2007-12-18 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/12/shadowy-donors.html http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3065614.ece Yesterday, the day on which the former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer of Thoroton effectively killed the Government's 42-day detention plan, was also the 43rd day that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito spent in custody in Italy in ... 2007-12-18 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3065614.ece http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/12/how-to-be-a-mad.html Gordon Brown was right not to go to Lisbon at the weekend, but even so, there was something marvellous about seeing Robert Mugabe being Merkelled in the flesh by the German Chancellor. There, impassive, he was forced to sit while... 2007-12-12 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/12/how-to-be-a-mad.html http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3031178.ece Gordon Brown was right not to go to Lisbon at the weekend, but even so, there was something marvellous about seeing Robert Mugabe being Merkelled in the flesh by the German Chancellor. 2007-12-11 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article3031178.ece http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/12/the-zidane-mome.html For Christmas I would like a special writer's present. This would be the uninhibited capacity to be able to write sentences about stench and stink and sleaze and about how politics is enmired in corruption, or else about how government... 2007-12-06 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/12/the-zidane-mome.html http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article2994641.ece For Christmas I would like a special writer's present. 2007-12-04 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article2994641.ece http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/no-real-sex-ple.html Later today the luminary authorities who run the magazine The Literary Review will — for the 15th time — announce the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The original object of this prize was to “draw attention to... 2007-11-27 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/no-real-sex-ple.html http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article2950876.ece Later today the luminary authorities who run the magazine The Literary Review will — for the 15th time — announce the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The original object of this prize was to “draw attention to the crude... 2007-11-27 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article2950876.ece http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/the-obesity-deb.html There is a writer we both know and love, you and I, who hates fat people. Every time there needs to be an example of personal unloveliness – from flatulence to bad manners – it is somehow bracketed with excessive... 2007-11-26 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/the-obesity-deb.html http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/a-weapons-exper.html One of Ming Campbell’s more light-hearted legacies to his party was the elevation to the position of Shadow to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster of Norman Baker, the MP for Lewes. In fact Mr Baker’s job represented a... 2007-11-26 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/a-weapons-exper.html http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/its-all-a-wicke.html Some of Britain's more bruised politicians, surveying the broadcasting coverage of Alex Salmond's appearance before his party faithful at Aviemore, must have wondered what the Scottish First Minister had that they didn't, for no cloud was permitted by the BBC... 2007-11-26 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/its-all-a-wicke.html http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/who-really-kill.html A couple of years ago I did my second stint of jury service at a Central London court. We ended up hearing a case in which a middle-class couple were terrorised one evening by a man who had decided, wrongly,... 2007-11-26 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/who-really-kill.html http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/love-from-lisbo.html Sometimes in politics (though rarely in journalism) your sins will find you out. One of the lessons that Tony Blair says he learnt from his time in office was how his choices were affected and constrained by what he had... 2007-11-26 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/love-from-lisbo.html http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/why-ditch-blair.html There is much to admire about David Cameron: the hair, the skin, the sticking to the task when the going was hard, the job-creation schemes for John Redwood and Boris Johnson. I attend gatherings full of Labour nervousness or Tory... 2007-11-26 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/why-ditch-blair.html http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/tony-blair-the.html Months ago, when I knew I would be interviewing Tony Blair for a series of programmes on BBC One, I would ask friends, politicians and other journalists what questions they most wanted put to the former Prime Minister. Reduced to... 2007-11-26 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/tony-blair-the.html http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/not-all-hypocri.html Every week, when I open my JC, there to seems to be an article about how many frummers there are these days. Millions of ’em, cluttering up Jewish schools, congregating in Jerusalem to persecute gays, and breeding like Catholics. Soon,... 2007-11-26 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/not-all-hypocri.html http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/tony-greenstein.html At the beginning of July, an item was posted on my weblog which stated that Tony Greenstein had been "intimidating" or "harassing Jews’ at NUS conferences for 30 years. Tony Greenstein believed that this accused him of committing an offence... 2007-11-26 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/tony-greenstein.html http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/from-scandal-to.html For as long as it lasted, it was a fabulous image: the BBC’s slightly pompous arts supremo, Alan Yentob – never a man to wear his talents inside his clothes – having himself edited into encounters that he wasn’t actually... 2007-11-26 00:00:00 http://timesonline.typepad.com/david_aaronovitch/2007/11/from-scandal-to.html http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article2903537.ece There is much to admire about David Cameron: the hair, the skin, the sticking to the task when the going was hard, the job-creation schemes for John Redwood and Boris Johnson. 2007-11-20 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article2903537.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/the_blair_years/article2886677.ece Months ago, when I knew I would be interviewing Tony Blair for a series of programmes on BBC One, I would ask friends, politicians and other journalists what questions they most wanted put to the former Prime Minister. 2007-11-17 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/the_blair_years/article2886677.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article2766941.ece Some of Britain's more bruised politicians, surveying the broadcasting coverage of Alex Salmond's appearance before his party faithful at Aviemore, must have wondered what the Scottish First Minister had that they didn't, for no cloud wa... 2007-10-30 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article2766941.ece