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THOSE who refuse to pay for The Times online are missing a brilliant piece today by David Aaronovitch, who I hate because he writes about the same kind of stuff that I do except much, much more effectively.

I trust he won’t mind me reprinting a few lines:

Here is the background, summarised. The former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is to give the entire earnings from his imminent memoirs to a servicemen’s charity. According to even the highest and most speculative assessments of his richesse, the donation would amount to a quarter of his wealth. And this almost unprecedented act of top-person philanthropy is, in Britain circa 2010, to receive (as The Washington Post observed, bemused) “a withering response”, in which the most commonly deployed phrases have been “blood money” and “guilty conscience”.

It is like living in a madhouse.

Perfect.

It’s less than a tenner a month, by the way – you’d pay a lot more if you bought it from a newsagent every day.