Andrew Martin
Articles by andrew martin
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Books
All this and WWII
- 19 June 2008
Avro Lancaster Owner's Workshop Manual: an Insight into Owning, Restoring, Servicing and Flying Britain's Legendary World War Two Bomber
Jarrod Cotter and Paul Blackah
J H Haynes & Co, 160pp, £17.99
Society
Safety first - but not for children
- 24 April 2008
You can't carry a cup of hot coffee on a train, or smoke in a public place - but if you're a teenager you know for a fact you'll be attacked on the street
Books
Musical youth
- 03 April 2008
Gig: the Life and Times of a Rock-Star Fantasist
Simon Armitage Viking, 320pp, £16.99
Society
The driver in front has a MSG 4U
- 25 October 2007
A disproportionate number of personalised plates are attached to cars with smoked-glass windows. Well, do the drivers want to be noticed or not?
Society
Think of a number, any number
- 30 April 2007
If modern life is increasingly a question of remembering numbers, what's the danger of becoming one?
Religion
Where have the lefty Christians gone?
- 09 April 2007
- 14 comments
Nowadays going to church is something to keep quiet at left-liberal social gatherings
Books
The poet of the provinces
- 04 September 2006
John Betjeman is often thought of as a bit of a fogey, but
his work was piercingly prescient. Andrew Martin looks back at the man who helped inspire him as a writer
Diary - Andrew Martin
- 15 May 2006
"You polled 302 votes," the council officer told me. "And was that the lowest of any of the three Greens in the ward?" I asked, morbidly fascinated. "I'm afraid it was, Mr Martin"
