AARONOVITCH, DAVID

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...