On tonight’s show, Neil Denny and Padraig Reidy welcome back David Aaronovitch for his third Little Atoms appearance. David Aaronovitch is a writer, broadcaster and commentator on international politics and the media. He started his media career in television, working as a producer on ITV’s Weekend World, and The BBC’s On The Record. He has previously

David Aaronovitch argues that the modern world of 24-hour news and the internet has created a system of non-stop scrutiny of leading politicians - not just on policy issues but on personal ones. They thus face greater difficulties than their predecessors did. Aaronovitch asks the question as to whether the Attlee government would have been able to press ahead with its achievements over 1945-51 in ...

David Aaronovitch is one of the preeminent voices of the liberal-left in this country. He is no social conservative and has been dismissive of those who want a lower time-limit for abortion. But today he wrote something that reminded me of that famous Peggy Noonan column about the Columbine massacre and ‘the ocean in which our children swim.’ Aaronovitch writing about the Times’ ...

Today in Times comment David Aaronovitch: Private lives should never belong to the public David Rowan: Google v Facebook. This time it's personal Jan Raath: Chinese bring Zimbabwe's black and white together David Davis: Our courts must stand up to...

Later on I am going to be driving to the Tiffin Girls School in Kingston upon Thames to take part in a BBC Schools Question Time. Also on the panel is local LibDem MP Ed Davey, Labour MEP Robert Evans, David Aaronovitch and BBC Economics Editor Stephanie Flanders. Nicely balanced panel, eh? Playing David Dimbleby will be the lovely Emily Maitlis, who I met last year when she hosted the BBC's ...

I came across Chris Applegate's rather wonderful algorithm for a David Aaronovitch simulator, based on this column: Step 1: Go ad hominem from the very start and label your opponents as being part of some mythical self-styled intellectual commentariat (while ignoring just how eminently qualified you are yourself to belong to that same cadre): Step 2: Posit a false dichotomy and put your opponent a...

In the Times today columnist David Aaronovitch goes to work on the popular idea that we as citizens are caught on CCTV camera 300 times a day. He’s tenacious, dogged and vociferous in his quest to debunk the misconception. He should be congratulated on his little scoop. It’s worthy of a blogger. If only, however,

Amid all the coverage of the JRRT Database State report yesterday I had a bruising telephone encounter with Times’ columnist David Aaronovitch. He seemed dissatisfied and angry about our report; more angry than I could account for from anything we had written. I got so drawn into our conversation I was 15 minutes late for an important conference call (sorry colleagues!) He told me we were co...

Photo by Sabine J Hutchinson I have written far too much recently about the Stiperstones and its abandoned mines - try the latest Calder's Comfort Farm on the New Statesman site. It seems I am not the only one who likes them. In Saturday's issue of The Times David Aaronovitch wrote:I am as captivated by the abandoned cottages and workings of the 18th-century barytes miners beside the Shr...

I came across Chris Applegate's rather wonderful algorithm for a David Aaronovitch simulator, based on this column: Step 1: Go ad hominem from the very start and label your opponents as being part of some mythical self-styled intellectual commentariat (while ignoring just how eminently qualified you are yourself to belong to that same cadre): Step 2: Posit a false dichotomy and put your opponent a...