News about David Aaronovitch
Do you ever think about dying? Here's why we do: LYNN BARBER, MARY KILLEN, JULIE BURCHILL, MICHAEL ODELL AND DAVID AARONOVITCH
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April 27, 2024
There's a great moment in the Barbie film where Margot Robbie blurts out, 'Do you guys ever think about dying?' and everyone is shocked. But I can assure you that oldies like me (I'm 79) think about dying the whole time and talk about it too.
Why I love my corner shop
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December 9, 2023
A decade ago, superstores and changing shopping habits threatened their existence; then the pandemic made them more essential than ever, says David Aaronovitch
Universities have become so terrified of free speech I've launched a Faculty of Common Sense, writes PROFESSOR ERIC KAUFMANN who was hounded out of his job at the University of London
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October 5, 2023
PROFESSOR ERIC KAUFMANN: Woke ideology has a way of generating terms that bring a shiver down the spine. One chilling dictum sums up the dogma: "The procedure is the punishment." What does it mean? It's just that speaking out against hard-Left orthodoxy is causing a certain amount of resentment. Academics do not have to be guilty of any professional blunder. The accusation of a thoughtcrime alone is sufficient to inflame anxiety and fear, silence opposition, and force obedience.
A university professor who has been postponed by students creates a "faculty for common sense" at a rival university to combat wokening
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October 1, 2023
Students at a top London university are starting a war on awakening by inventing a 'faculty for common sense' at a rival university. At the University of Buckingham, Professor Eric Kaufmann, 53, formerly Head of Politics at Birkbeck, is establishing a Heterodox Social Science Center as a symbol of academic free discourse.
Boys breakfast club: How a chance meeting at a cafe led to a friendship between three men that has lasted for a quarter of a century, writes DAVID AARONOVITCH
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September 23, 2023
David Aaronovitch had no close male acquaintances by his mid-40s. But then everything changed. A chance meeting in a cafe transformed his life twenty-five years ago.
Six reason I'll defy the fat-shamers and WON'T stop taking Ozempic: DAVID AARONOVITCH defends the controversial weight loss drug from the skinny brigade
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August 5, 2023
DAVID AARONOVITCH: They've been out of Ozempic (a brand name for the injectable drug semaglutide) for three weeks now, and they have no idea when it will be back in. If the situation doesn't change, I'll be finding out if people who stop injecting will simply pile the pounds back on. I'm growing curious that there's a sense of slim people who will be secretly joking.
The truth is out there - or is it? BY DAVID AARONOVITCH, VOODOO HISTORIES
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June 1, 2009
Here are a few of the conspiracy theories that have perplexed, stunned, and befuddled us over the past 50 years - the Kennedy assassinations, Princess Diana's, and Dr. David Kelly's death, the 'faked' Apollo moon landing, and the assertion that Jesus' descendants are among us. According to PETER LEWIS, the journalist David Aaronovitch has written a book for those who would rather have the unvarnished if boring truth than the colorful world of paranoia.