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David Aaronovitch
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David Aaronovitch
@DAaronovitch
Presenter of BBC Radio 4's Briefing Room, author of Voodoo Histories, now Substacking with Notes from the Underground. Instagram: david_aaronovitch
- I’m beginning to confuse the honours list and the sanctions list. But I suppose it doesn’t matter.
- Bollocks to all the Lord Frost resignation ‘reasons’. He’s going because he crowed, threatened, struck stances and FAILED.
- This could quite easily have been the front of a National Front flyer from the 70s. I’d like to see Truss and her supporters asked to disavow it.
- In my new book "How to clutter", I recommend having a minimum of 30 books by your bed. Otherwise you can't be certain of having something good to read.
- To have two children in a top London private school will cost their parents over £60k a year (ie more than £100k net income). This is NOT about aspiration. It's about wealth.
- I hadn't been following it, partly because Piers Morgan is such a tawdry waste of space. But having just seen a compilation of his Meghan-hating pieces in the Mail I think there's something vaguely deranged about him.
- If you're wondering why British covid rates are so much higher than, say, German ones, just travel on a train in either country or go into a crowded shop.
- Off to work. Keys, phone, notebook, bottle of red wine….
- Le Pen didn't win. She didn't nearly win. She didn't remotely win. She won as well as Jeremy Corbyn did in 2019. To analyse this result as a victory for her is just perverse.
- Surely if we could land a man on the moon 50 years ago we should have managed to find someone to be prime minister who knew wtf they were talking about.
- The Queen of Denmark invites the president of the United States to visit her country. He accepts but then abruptly cancels his trip because the Danish government won't sell him Greenland. And there are still some people who think this is not a problem.
- These are who our friends are.
- One thing that will happen as a result of these riots is that some really stupid people (the looter without a mask wearing the St George's Cross shirt?) will end up going to prison and the guys who have stirred this up will sitting pretty in their TV studios and behind their
