21st November, 2007
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21st November, 2007
When this column discusses democracy, it is usually to argue that our elective oligarchy bears no relation to it at all; that there is nothing wrong with elective oligarchy, except calling it something it transparently is not; but why not try real, i.e. ancient Athenian, democracy for a change when the chance arises?
14th November, 2007
At Oxford I had a clerical friend, a mature postgraduate and student of 19th-century evangelism, who developed a temporary but consuming passion for car tyres.
14th November, 2007
Melissa Kite is deputy political editor of the Sunday Telegraph.
14th November, 2007
The to-and-fro of the 2012 Olympic Games’s accounting transparency (or otherwise) continues to be what old sportswriters used to call ‘a ding-dong contest’.
14th November, 2007
A dinner-party guest rang me three hours before the dinner for ten I was giving as a thank-you to her and her husband to say that as soon as she arrived at my flat, at 8.30, she would have to use my computer to bid for some curtains on eBay.
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