http://journalisted.com/michael-gove en-gb http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4498796.ece They slip easily into the pocket, they're indispensable on holiday, and they're especially useful if you find yourself in intimate situations where a lack of protection can spell trouble. Yes, who would want to be with 2008-08-11 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4498796.ece http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/04/michaelgove.gender Titles such as Nuts and Zoo promote a shallow approach to women and fail to encourage young men to act responsibly 2008-08-04 00:00:00 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/04/michaelgove.gender http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4453662.ece Whatever else one thinks of David Miliband, he should be applauded for reviving what my English teacher used to call practical criticism. The practice of close, line-by-line reading of a text to tease out meaning and disco 2008-08-04 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4453662.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4411891.ece I wasn't that impressed by Barack Obama's speech in Berlin. It felt a little forced and the comparisons that it so obviously and self-consciously invited with JFK and Reagan only served to diminish Mr Obama. When Kennedy a 2008-07-28 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4411891.ece http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/22/education.michaelgove Ed Balls has still to accept a crucial lesson from the Sats fiasco: that he should be held to account for it 2008-07-22 00:00:00 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/22/education.michaelgove http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4368531.ece Trillions of words have been spoken about politics, but the language used by politicians is remarkably limited. 2008-07-21 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4368531.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4326865.ece There may be more than a billion books in the Library of Congress but there are only seven basic plots. Or so Christopher Booker argues in a fantastically entertaining book of the same name. From the origins of myth-making in The 2008-07-14 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4326865.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4281766.ece One thing this column has in common with Keith Vaz? Neither of us has a title - yet. Robert Crampton is Beta Male, Carol Midgley is the Bargainhunter - but I am just an anonymous Notebook. I'm in distinguished comp 2008-07-07 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4281766.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4237415.ece It's a pity Viscount Slim got there first. 2008-06-30 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4237415.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4192910.ece Word of the week, undoubtedly, has to be fascinator. 2008-06-23 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4192910.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4143983.ece You can always spot a Scot of my generation as soon as he opens his mouth. 2008-06-16 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4143983.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4092174.ece The best thing ever written on terrorism wasn't by Conrad or Bobbitt but popped up on Not the Nine O'Clock News. The team played earnest young radicals poring over a copy of Das Kapital. One of them looked up and began reading 2008-06-09 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4092174.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4045169.ece Returning to these comment pages after three years writing in times2 is a bit like being transferred from the camp in Tenko to one of the ships in the Cruel Sea. 2008-06-02 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article4045169.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3962889.ece If one theme has cropped up again and again in these columns, it has probably been my general hopelessness as a dad. 2008-05-20 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3962889.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3875567.ece The hardest thing in life is knowing when it's over. 2008-05-06 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3875567.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article3789938.ece You could almost hear the horror in Rosie's voice. 2008-04-22 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article3789938.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article3744538.ece Chelsea, as Max Mosley knows, has a number of little hideaways where you can spend limitless sums pursuing the sort of pleasures the world now frowns on. 2008-04-15 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article3744538.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3699351.ece It may never have become a natural ice-breaker on the terraces at Ibrox, but for a brief period it was the question every modern male had to consider. 2008-04-08 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3699351.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3653736.ece If even Ed Stourton doesn't get it, there really is a problem. 2008-04-01 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3653736.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3612105.ece Radio 4 is supposed to be soothing. 2008-03-25 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3612105.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article3568895.ece My hero of the week? Well, it's a crowded field. 2008-03-18 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article3568895.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article3522620.ece My most successful friend now runs a major high street retail outlet. 2008-03-11 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article3522620.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article3476149.ece Weeding is never an end in itself. 2008-03-04 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article3476149.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3391119.ece Walking across Trafalgar Square the other day I paused before the statue of General Charles Napier. 2008-02-19 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3391119.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3351233.ece Apparently around 20 per cent of voters think that the Government is lying about its contacts with extraterrestrial life. 2008-02-12 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3351233.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3305567.ece What is the last safe prejudice? Against what, or whom, is it still reasonable to harbour an irrational dislike? Is there any area where the expression of an opinion isn’t at risk of becoming a judgmental fatwa likely to dam... 2008-02-05 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3305567.ece http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/03/health.nhs2 The most wonderful moments in my life have been the births of my children. And at those special moments, when those I love most were most dependent on others, the National Health Service gave my family superb care. 2008-02-03 00:00:00 http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/03/health.nhs2 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3265352.ece Easter comes early this year, which means that the period between the end of the January detox and the start of Lenten abstinence is terrifyingly brief. 2008-01-29 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3265352.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3226332.ece I suppose I’d better call it Young Syndrome. 2008-01-22 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3226332.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3185582.ece I have succumbed. 2008-01-15 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3185582.ece http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/13/nedu313.xml The Education Bill fails to solve problems that bother parents, says Michael Gove 2008-01-13 00:00:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/13/nedu313.xml http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3146729.ece This is the time of year when strange things happen to your fridge. 2008-01-08 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3146729.ece http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/michael-gove-you-ask-the-questions-768585.html The shadow Secretary for Children, Schools and Families answers your questions, such as 'Why are the Tories so hated in Scotland?' and 'Do you want to be Prime Minister?' 2008-01-07 00:00:00 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/michael-gove-you-ask-the-questions-768585.html http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3063683.ece I do hope that Roger Harrabin hasn’t invited too many people round for Christmas. 2007-12-18 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3063683.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3029299.ece Marriage inevitably involves sacrifices. 2007-12-11 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article3029299.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article2993200.ece Like all the best ideas it had a wicked simplicity. 2007-12-04 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article2993200.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article2948100.ece In his short story The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Will Self suggested that there was, at any time, always exactly the same amount of lunacy around, it was just constantly being redistributed. 2007-11-27 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article2948100.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article2901654.ece Which pages are the most depressing in any newspaper? The obits? Sad, certainly if the subject is known to you but the best obituaries are celebrations of fully-lived lives, not exercises in morbidity. 2007-11-20 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article2901654.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article2891246.ece Sometimes it seems every politician considers themselves an expert on education. 2007-11-18 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article2891246.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article2857164.ece Is driving inherently right wing? The evidence, initially, appears overwhelming. 2007-11-13 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article2857164.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article2811642.ece Of all the institutions it’s probably ill-advised to take on (the Women’s Institute, the Harlequins first XV, the Parachute Regiment on a Saturday night in Aldershot), perhaps the most terrifying adversary you could pick is t... 2007-11-06 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article2811642.ece http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article2764282.ece Politics is, apparently, showbusiness for ugly people. 2007-10-30 00:00:00 http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/michael_gove/article2764282.ece