en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:36:58 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif David Aaronovitch Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:01:17 GMT 2009-07-03T11:38:24Z On a sweltering late June day in Cambridge I first encounter Amartya Sen, as Peter O’Toole first encountered Omar Sharif, except in reverse. As I enter the gate of Trinity and screw my eyes up against the sun’s reflection from the unsheltered expanse of the Great Court, I can make out, on the far side, what may be a man, standing alone. As I get closer he becomes definitely a man, closer still and he has Senlike characteristics, closer yet and he seems to be holding something and speaking to himself, almost there and he waves. It is the Nobel laureate and former Master of Trinity, simultaneously greeting me and making one of his many arrangements on his mobile phone. David Aaronovitch Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT 2009-06-29T09:32:16Z And suddenly we discovered that everyone was — and always had been — antsy, uncomfortable, sometimes downright worried about government national literacy and numeracy strategies and all the other educational bossinesses likely to be scrapped later today. David Aaronovitch Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:29 GMT 2009-06-30T12:47:47Z It's a fun day for Sir John Chilcot, because he will get to meet both Nick Clegg and David Cameron to talk about his inquiry into the Iraq War. He will find them, I am sure, wanting nothing that is not best for the country, or that would be unconducive for the learning of important lessons. David Aaronovitch Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:02 GMT 2009-06-23T02:02:57Z The photograph shows a man on the ground, curling into a foetal position, one hand over his face, being beaten by four, or maybe five burly men wielding short truncheons. Two are in the act of striking, and one may have just delivered his blow. Most of them show that strange anxiety that violent policemen seem to have that, unless they're quick, they won't get another chance to whack the defenceless man. David Aaronovitch Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:31 GMT 2009-06-23T02:02:45Z Comment Central: Could Brown go in the Autumn?