en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:13:18 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Michael Gove Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-22T11:45:34Z I have no idea how he would have come across on the GMTV sofa, but sometimes I think all our political problems could be solved if the man being lined up to be our next Foreign Secretary was not Lord Mandelson but Lord Palmerston. Michael Gove Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-23T11:06:45Z Very glad to see, according to Saturday’s Times, that antlers are back. Michael Gove Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-16T12:00:19Z We men have many weaknesses. And age only exacerbates them. Now that I have passed my 42nd birthday and am officially in the final 40 per cent of my alloted span on Earth — what Sue Townsend brilliantly alludes to as the prostate years — my infirmities are becoming ever more debilitating. Michael Gove Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-16T12:00:24Z We live in a world where the greatest compliment is not to be thought wise, right or just but in tune, on trend and leading edge. Are you now, of the moment, in vogue? Fresh, contemporary, the coming thing? Novelty increasingly trumps quality, and anything durable that has weathered the ages is not respected for its resilience but considered quaintly embarrassing for hanging around, like an aunt at an orgy, when it should really just push off and stop cramping our style. Michael Gove Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-02T01:08:55Z The problem with the Conservative Party, Evelyn Waugh once argued, is that we have never put the clock back by even a single second. That’s probably because, as a mass democratic organisation, we have to respect public opinion. And the public’s opinion on putting the clock back, as you will no doubt have noticed this weekend, is that it is, literally, a waste of time.