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, 07 Nov 2009 04:21:06 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Michael Gove Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-01T09:24:40Z 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. Michael Gove Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-10-26T10:56:54Z Who was Churchill’s favourite Spice Girl? Where did the Duke of Wellington have his first snog? Tell me, Dr Kissinger, are you a boxers man or briefs? Or did you broker an end to war in Indochina with something altogether scantier? The Cold War missile gap takes on a new dimension if we know you faced the Vietcong in only a thong. Michael Gove Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-10-19T11:26:23Z Abraham Lincoln? David Lloyd George? Winston Churchill? Who in the pantheon of Gove heroes should take pride of place? Michael Gove Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-10-12T04:43:12Z For Wagner it was Love and Death, for Shakespeare, Heroism and Humanity, for Tolstoy, War and Peace. For me, it’s the Eternal Quest For An Appropriate Sports Jacket That Can Bridge Most Social Occasions. Every writer has his signature themes, his leitmotivs, the subjects to which he feels impelled, by forces greater than mere self-expression, to explore in print. And in my case its the eternal dilemmas posed by the many choices we now enjoy in the world of gents’ tailoring.