Craig Brown
Craig Brown
Craig Edward Moncrieff Brownis an English critic and satirist, best known for his parodies in Private Eye...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth23 May 1957
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More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
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More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.
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The plaintiff dropped John Mack from the lawsuit after they understood the fact he played no role in authorizing the employment agreements that are the subject of the suit and didn't join the board until after the agreements were approved.
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Like Christians, Soccerians argue that you should not judge the essence of their faith by the loopy activities of its followers. But the Beautiful Game is in fact quite the opposite. It is badly designed and riddled with flaws.
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I had total confidence. He's made big ones before and he does it every day in practice.
Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.
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Women are more sensitive, more practical, more intelligent, more balanced, better able to deal with people, better cooks, better parents, better carers, better leaders, and so on and so forth.
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When cars honk and hoot and drunks squeeze out of car windows and scream, you can be sure that football is in the air.
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To do anything in a downtown area in 10 months, it's only done by everyone having a shared vision. It has been a team effort.
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It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.
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The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another.
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It wasn't a numbers game at all. It was a desire to have a leadership team that was uniquely selected to serve the Greenville market.
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The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertainingly, as possible.
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It shows some justice for what's been done to all three children. She's next. I want the same thing for her. She's just as guilty as him.