AARONOVITCH, DAVID

Chichester. The weekend. Enter that lovely man Sir Derek Jacobi, the actor-manager and playwright Mark Rylance and the 300 signatories of the ?declaration of reasonable doubt? into whether Shakespeare actually wrote Shakespeare. These doubters include professors of literature, a bulse...

Fathers should have deep voices, and Gordon Brown?s bass is now so profound that he makes Paul Robeson sound like an Elizabethan counter-tenor. Over the past weeks these tones seem to have reassured an electorate, brought up on rock, at...

Along with my good wishes and personal papers that my daughters will inherit, on my death, this piece of advice for dealing with the world: always, my dears, reverse the stat. So, if a polling headline tells you that an...

A few weeks ago, readers will recall, there was a something of a bad press day for the firm of Levy and Son here in the JC. First there was the letter from a judge, Barrington Black, regretting that he...

Bank Holiday Monday, North London, and the adolescent boy suddenly emerged from the shop doorway, a mobile-clutching friend beside him. ?Excuse me,? he said, ?But do you know the way to the Tinseltown café, please?? I showed him where to...

Years ago someone (I forget who) told me it was because of the sand; men who live in deserts are liable to get grit where it most isn?t wanted and where it unfortunately doesn?t turn to pearls. So the religious...

This was sent to me by an old comrade, name of Charlie Wood.................. "Hi Dave, we last met at the CP students caucus at the NUS conference in 1979. I recollect you sat cross legged on the table half asleep...