Comments on: How to write a David Aaronovitch column http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2008/02/26/how-to-write-a-david-aaronovitch-column/ Because all the other domain names were taken Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:04:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tom James http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2008/02/26/how-to-write-a-david-aaronovitch-column/comment-page-1/#comment-2912 Tom James Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:01:40 +0000 http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog/2008/02/26/how-to-write-a-david-aaronovitch-column/#comment-2912 Thank you for that concise and accurate comment on Mr Aaronovitch's opinions on CCTV. I actually agree with Cocktails: the government is always very eager to be seen to please the sort of people who read the Daily Mail. Still, the Mail is pretty funny. It's just too bad it's (apparently) taken so seriously by those in power. Keep up the good work Chris! Thank you for that concise and accurate comment on Mr Aaronovitch’s opinions on CCTV.

I actually agree with Cocktails: the government is always very eager to be seen to please the sort of people who read the Daily Mail.

Still, the Mail is pretty funny. It’s just too bad it’s (apparently) taken so seriously by those in power.

Keep up the good work Chris!

]]> By: Cocktails http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2008/02/26/how-to-write-a-david-aaronovitch-column/comment-page-1/#comment-2911 Cocktails Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:13:31 +0000 http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog/2008/02/26/how-to-write-a-david-aaronovitch-column/#comment-2911 Nice summary of Mr Aaronovitch there. I also like the way he casually tosses in sentences like ‘A very clever person said to me at the weekend that the ubiquity of CCTV meant that she felt “constantly watched”’, thereby implying what…? That this person is letting down their intelligence (unlike Aaronovitch) by being being concerned about privacy. Do only stupid people care about liberty?

And I don’t think that the government’s inconsistent approach to the intrusive state and foreign invasions is necessarily straight distance clouding judgement or hypocrisy. It’s probably a combination of both – it’s lets-do-what-the-Americans-tell-us clouding judgement and appealing-to-the-Daily-Mail-readership hypocrisy…

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