en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:08:25 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Matthew Parris Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:01:00 GMT 2010-02-05T07:53:04Z “All that is needed is the political will.” Matthew Parris Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:01:00 GMT 2010-02-03T07:32:27Z Anthony Trollope remarked that we can say what we like about the Americans but we should never, ever, suppose them stupid. I thought of that during an outing to the cinema last week. Matthew Parris Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:01:00 GMT 2010-01-29T09:56:29Z Within minutes of the start of yesterday’s proceedings of the Chilcot inquiry, a tanned Tony Blair gave us the key to understanding his motivation. But it took the whole day’s grilling, right through to his final, defiant Je ne regrette rien, for me to solve a bigger puzzle: our own motivation. Why the national and media infatuation with making this man squirm? Matthew Parris Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:01:00 GMT 2010-01-28T01:48:01Z To watch Sir Roderic Lyne at the Chilcot inquiry yesterday, poking the former Attorney-General, Lord Goldsmith, with a sharp stick, was delicious. On the question of whether a “second resolution” by the UN Security Council was required before war, Lord Goldsmith was in obvious difficulty. His opinion was (or became) that because France had tried unsuccessfully to get the requirement made explicit, that meant the requirement cannot have been implicit. Like arguing that because I wanted to wear braces, no reliance can be placed on my belt. Matthew Parris Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:01:00 GMT 2010-01-25T05:15:22Z Perversely, the charmless, spirit-lowering photographs of street furniture seen in this paper recently would be anathema to any competent Fleet Street pictures editor - which is precisely the reason The Times should publish them. We should force ourselves to look. Urban planners and health & safety officers should be grabbed by their collars and made to confront the aesthetic misery they insinuate into our streetscapes.