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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Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty it.
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The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another.
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You could tell then that he was an outstanding coach and a brilliant tactician. He was full of initiative and ambition and, having had an impeccable pedigree as a player, it's not a surprise that he's flourishing as a coach.
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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.
Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.
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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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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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Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.
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One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.
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One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.
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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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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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Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.