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Michael has written a weekly current affairs column for The Times since 1999. Click here to link to The Times website.

13 May 2008 : I'd love to read The Gruffalo for the 777th time but, alas, duty calls

It's not a clincher when you say you can't do the bath because you have to take a call from Radio Rockall, on whose drive-time phone-in you're guesting. | more

6 May 2008 : Sex and the City, an episode in emptiness

The hardest thing in life is knowing when it's over. Realising that your moment's passed, the mojo's gone, you are now in that terrible zone where the harder you try to make yourself relevant, the more it shows how past it you are. | more

22 Apr 2008 : In the colour debate I'm neutral. Beige, to be precise

The greatest of all drinks, made from angels' tears and tasting of peat, the Islay malt, is a pure, clear beige | more

15 Apr 2008 : My naughty pleasures between the covers

Serious-minded souls would suggest that you'd be better off having a quick Lees-Milne only after three courses of Noam Chomsky or Robert Fisk | more

8 Apr 2008 : Take our quiz to find out whether your partner is Just Tory Enough

Is his favourite film a) The Dam Busters; b) Elizabeth; or c) any film in which British imperialists get it in the eye? | more

1 Apr 2008 : Anti-Semitism is finding new allies on both Right and Left

Hatred of the Jewish people, which united the likes of Klaus Barbie and Tariq Aziz, hasn't been contained | more

25 Mar 2008 : Paradise is Hell: why I hate Desert Island Discs

Radio 4 is supposed to be soothing. | more

18 Mar 2008 : Don't let's be beastly to the Germans: I'm one of them myself

Just as we have an inner age, we have an inner nationality. Whatever it says on our passport, most of us may find that we are spiritually something else | more

11 Mar 2008 : Et in Orcadia ego: confessions of a D & D addict

Pretending to be an elf for an afternoon is ludicrous. But for a few spotty years I was that geek | more

4 Mar 2008 : Will my verbal seedlings take root and flourish?

Chipping Norton is the fear that hits you, on your way to the airport, that you left the cooker on. | more

2 Mar 2008 : I won schools lottery, but want it abolished

Is it a crime to want the best for your child? | more

20 Feb 2008 : I admired Tony Blair. I knew Tony Blair. Prime Minister, you are no Tony Blair

There are few feuds as destructive as the squabble over a legacy. | more

19 Feb 2008 : Trafalgar Square plinth should be the public's decision

Walking across Trafalgar Square the other day I paused before the statue of General Charles Napier. And I realised where we'd gone wrong as a country. | more

12 Feb 2008 : Ground Control to Mayor Ken: it's an empty space oddity

Apparently around 20 per cent of voters think that the Government is lying about its contacts with extraterrestrial life. All I can ask is, why so few? | more

5 Feb 2008 : The corruption of words is such a source of irritation

What is the last safe prejudice? Against what, or whom, is it still reasonable to harbour an irrational dislike? | more

29 Jan 2008 : That downhill course was uphill work for me

Easter comes early this year, which means that the period between the end of the January detox and the start of Lenten abstinence is terrifyingly brief. | more

22 Jan 2008 : Champagne lifestyle, pint of mild income

I suppose I’d better call it Young Syndrome. | more

15 Jan 2008 : Are we tetchier? I have grounds for thinking so

I have succumbed. Given in. Surrendered. | more

14 Jan 2008 : The Education Bill fails to solve problems that bother parents, says Michael Gove

Great schools and inspirational teachers transformed my life. Both my parents had to leave school at the earliest possible date to enter the world of work. But they both believed in the power of education to transform lives for the better and they made sacrifices to ensure I had the chances they never enjoyed. | more

8 Jan 2008 : How to live with someone who's on a diet

This is the time of year when strange things happen to your fridge. | more

 

 

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