Andrew Martin
Articles by Andrew Martin
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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
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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"
Life & Society
The long and winding road
- 03 April 2006
Great British Bus Journeys: travels through infamous places David McKie Atlantic Books, 352pp, £16.99 ISBN 1843541327
Society
Shhh! Save our sleepers
- 27 March 2006
Sleeper trains are a beautiful way to travel but the service is fast fading. We must act now, urges Andrew Martin
Books
Secret history
- 06 February 2006
Snatches Martin Rowson Jonathan Cape, 327pp, £11.99 ISBN 0224076043
Society
'Tis the season to be cosy
- 19 December 2005
NS Christmas - And at Christmas, no one does cosy better than the Brits. Andrew Martin pulls up a fireside chair
Politics
For whom the decibels toll
- 05 December 2005
Special report - The night before Andrew Martin took his first flight, at the age of 13, he couldn't sleep for excitement. These days he's rather less happy about the planes that keep him wide awake
