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	Matthew Parris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matthew Parris (born August 7, 1949 in Johannesburg) is a journalist and former Conservative politician in the United Kingdom.
		Parris is the eldest of six children and grew up in several countries where his British father was working as an electrical engineer (South Africa, Cyprus, Rhodesia, Swaziland and Jamaica).
		Parris announced he was gay in one of his weekly newspaper columns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_Parris (1078 words)

	Matthew Paris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matthew revised Roger's work, and that of Abbot John de Cella (also known as John of Wallingford), adding new material to cover his own tenure, and this Chronica Majora is an important historical source document.
		Matthew is a vehement supporter of the monastic orders against their rivals, the secular clergy and the mendicant friars.
		Matthew Paris is sometimes confused with "Matthew of Westminster", the reputed author of the Flores historiarum edited by Luard (3 vols., Rolls series, 1890).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_Paris (1068 words)

	To the Ends of the Earth
		Matthew Parris, former Conservative MP and current parliamentary sketch writer and columnist for The Times, has had an obsession with Kerguelen Island since he was a boy.
		On arrival, Matthew met the community of research scientists with whom he was to spend the next months: 50 men and two women, all of them French.
		Matthew's trip was blighted by a terrible accident that took place on a hunting trip to a neighbouring island.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/E/ends2/tisland1.html (538 words)

	Matthew Paris: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Matthew parris (born august 7 1949 in johannesburg) is a politician and journalist in the united kingdom....
		Matthew is a vehement supporter of the monastic orders against their rivals, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Matthew of westminster, long regarded as the author of the flores historiarum, is now thought never to have existed....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/matthew_paris.htm (1971 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Chance Witness: An Outsider's Life in Politics: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Matthew Parris made little impression in his career as a Tory candidate (for which, as a sardonically witty and iconoclastic gay man, he was perhaps not best suited), but in his subsequent career as one of the shrewdest observers of the political scene, he has few equals.
		Matthew Parris is a notable journalist in the field of politics and, having been an MP himself at one time, loves to write in detail about the Parliamentary world.
		Matthew spotted far earlier than most of us the flaws of our current Prime Minister, a charismatic figure with an excellent grasp of oral rhetoric who was (and still is in many ways) American-influenced in his speeches and politics, with a shallow grasp of policies and detail.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0670894400 (1409 words)

	Lateline - 3/10/2000: Matthew Parris . Australian Broadcasting Corp
		Matthew Parris, it's been conventional wisdom for a long time now that with his huge majority, Tony Blair is virtually unbeatable.
		MATTHEW PARRIS: I think in what John Penard was just saying lies the seed of the answer to that question.
		MATTHEW PARRIS: The party has to tread a very careful line between sounding loopy, sounding zany, with crazy ideas for privatising the police or whatever, and yet at the same time, they don't want to be so cautious that no-one believes they've got any new ideas.
	www.abc.net.au /lateline/stories/s195295.htm (704 words)

	Innocents Abroad: 06/15/2003 - 06/21/2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In today’s edition of the London Times, Matthew Parris believes he has discovered the truth about America and those who currently run the show at the White House: they’re all Germans, and that means fascists.
		Parris, unable to resist the temptation to jump on the Strauss-equals-neo-conservative bandwagon, would have us believe that the German view of Realpolitik has been transferred to the shores of the New World and now reigns through the influence of a Jewish philosopher of German origins.
		Parris would like to reduce Germany, at least the Germany that existed prior to the end of World War II (which is to say pre-critically theorized, sanitized, Habermasized Germany) to all its less desirable violent traits, and there were many.
	www.innocentsabroad.blogspot.com /2003_06_15_innocentsabroad_archive.html (2647 words)

	Matthew J. Parris, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Parris, M. Hybridization in leopard frogs (Rana pipiens complex): terrestrial performance of newly metamorphosed hybrid and parental genotypes in field enclosures.
		Parris, M. Experimental analysis of hybridization in leopard frogs (Anura: Ranidae): larval performance in desiccating environments.
		Parris, M. Hybridization in leopard frogs (Rana pipiens complex): larval fitness components in single-genotype populations and mixtures.
	biology.memphis.edu /mparris.htm (392 words)

	Observer \| Sketches of pain
		Matthew Parris was an awful child and he's not sure he's much better as an adult.
		The Matthew Parris he depicts is a thoroughly unreliable character, arrogant one minute, sheepish the next, sneakily cautious on some matters but then alarmingly prone to impulsive acts, such as jumping into the River Thames to rescue a drowning dog (good), or suddenly outing Peter Mandelson on Newsnight (bad).
		Parris talks very freely in his book about all his career failures but he is less forthcoming about the most obvious failure, or lacuna, in his life: the lack of any relationships.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4510758-102280,00.html (2056 words)

	Correspondents Report - Blair leadership in the balance
		MATTHEW PARRIS: What Tony Blair has always tended to suggest to his Party when he wants to do something they don't really want him to do is, look, give me the benefit of the doubt.
		MATTHEW PARRIS: So far as the British electorate are concerned, although there's no love for George W. Bush at the moment, and there's huge anger about some of the things that the Americans are doing, British people do believe that our future and that of North America is intertwined.
		MATTHEW PARRIS: What is doubly unfortunate for Tony Blair is that this upwelling of anger and despair at his leadership, mostly provoked by problems in Iraq, should come just as the Labour Party tried to launch the local election campaign and the European election campaign, both those elections being due for the 10th of June.
	www.abc.net.au /correspondents/content/2004/s1108982.htm (968 words)

	To the Ends of the Earth
		The fact that Matthew Parris chose to go to Kerguelen Island is perhaps not as bizarre as it at first sounds.
		It was then that Matthew was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire, a seat he held until he chose to give it up in 1986.
		Matthew is a keen runner and has completed the London Marathon on several occasions, his best time being an impressive 2 hours and 32 minutes.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/E/ends2/tisland5.html (464 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment
		Parris is one of the very few who can be readable and sensible at the same time.
		The most interesting character is not Parris the relentless outer of homosexuals alive or dead, nor Parris the wit, nor the long-distance runner, heroic dog-rescuer or goofy-toothed TV presenter.
		In some ways the modern Matthew Parris is to the right of the current Tory Party, in the sense that he still talks unashamedly about cutting taxes.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/10/06/bopar206.xml (883 words)

	Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
		I think Matthew Parris would say that yes, the whole point of travel as far away from England as Peru is precisely that it opens our inherent capacity to see the magical and the beautiful in the object, in the scene, in the people one encounters.
		Parris is impressed by the road, "a daring construction, sweeping majestically into the clouds," but what strikes him most deeply is the poverty.
		Parris writes in his book not in his professional capacities but as a traveler away from all the structures and codes which operate back home in England.
	www.corpse.org /issue_11/foreign_desk/garlitz.html (4035 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Books \| Examining the evidence
		I've known Matthew Parris pretty well for nearly 10 years, and he has always been kind and helpful and thoughtful, with only the occasional whiff of cattiness carried faintly on the breeze.
		Parris is savage about the late and little lamented Dr Sir Alan Glyn, a Tory bore whom even the bores avoided.
		The descriptions of him eating langoustines, shell and all ("I remember especially the feelers poking through his moustache and waving wildly as his yellowed teeth chomped the heads"), and of the time the wardrobe fell over door side down with Dr Glyn inside are alone almost worth the price of the book.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/books/story/0,10595,810171,00.html (498 words)

	The Scotsman - Opinion - When Parris beat Howard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MATTHEW Parris has self-deprecation down to an art form - which may be the secret of his success.
		Matthew had got there in the first place because the secretary was a dog lover.
		Matthew said it was bloody-minded and bad law, which Howard agreed it was.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=1218922003 (829 words)

	Interview April 4, 1998: Polit. Commentator Matthew Parris
		Former member of British Parliament and author of I Couldn't Possibly Comment, Matthew Parris reflects on his days as an MP and what he left behind.
		Listen in to hear snippets of the interview with Matthew Parris.
		Matthew Parris' book I Couldn't Possibly Comment is available from Amazon.com.
	www.notmuch.com /Features/Interview/int-040498.html (101 words)

	BBC News \| Entertainment \| Countdown celebrities tipped off
		Matthew Parris: The writer and former MP spills the beans on Countdown
		Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live's Late Night Live, Mr Parris, who has been a celebrity guest on the show, revealed that he had been given an ear piece with a hotline to the show's behind-the-scenes experts who fed him the best words.
		Mr Parris said: "I was pleased with the help as I would have been struggling without it.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/282342.stm (407 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Observer review: Chance Witness by Matthew Parris
		Parris gently complains that he was an outsider at the CRD, that no one called him by a nickname or invited him to their gatherings at 'the Villa of Shame', but still it seems to me that he had his own fish to fry.
		Parris is deliciously entertaining about this period, though, dammit, he provides no fresh juice on the young Michael Portillo.
		Parris spins between awful showing off - he reprints a lengthy extract from his maiden speech to the Commons and is forever going on about his spritely mental capabilities - and terrible self-loathing, agreeing with his old friend Ackroyd's diagnosis that his problem in life is 'no talent, darling'.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/biography/0,,810710,00.html (1351 words)

	ParaPundit: Mark Steyn Sees Virtue In Destruction Of Trans-National Imperialism
		Mark Steyn notes Matthew Parris's reasons for opposing the war in Iraq and sees virtue in those very same consequences of the war that Parris finds so objectionable.
		Curiously, Parris has since gone on to write a column proclaiming that America's national character is German.
		Parris then supports transnational neo-imperialism against America because he sees it as a force that opposes the spread of German rule over the world.
	www.parapundit.com /archives/001417.html (622 words)

	RealClearPolitics
		The most recent doom-and-gloom forecast by Matthew Parris of the London Times would be hilarious if it were not so hackneyed.
		While Parris decries our slow decline, the United States alone will soon have the world’s only anti-ballistic missile system and the forward basing presence to preempt would-be nuclear rogue states before they imperil Americans.
		Roger Kimball of The New Criterion asked Victor Davis Hanson to respond to Matthew Parris and Mr.
	www.realclearpolitics.com /Commentary/com-1_25_05_VDH.html (1091 words)

	ARMAVIRUMQUE: THE NEW CRITERION'S WEBLOG
		Currently Jared Diamond is back with Collapse, another grim tale from the desk of a Westwood professor, full of remonstrations about social inequality and resource depletion that we have come to expect from the rarified habitat in which tenured full professors thrive.
		All that disenchantment is the context in which Matthew Parris now warns us that our military is overstretched and our economy weak�despite the fact that our gross domestic product is larger than ever and the percentage of it devoted to military spending at historic lows, far below what was committed during WWII, Korea, or Vietnam.
		Parris cites the rise of other economies; but they, not us, have the real problems ahead.
	www.newcriterion.com /weblog/2005/01/victor-davis-hanson-why-matthew-parris.html (1240 words)

	The Book Of Matthew - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Now Matthew Parris is telling it like it was in his autobiography É and to Alan Taylor
		Parris likes to portray himself, as he does his erstwhile colleagues, in a tone of gentle mockery.
		But Parris, while acknowledging he could not have written the same book 10 years ago, and that he has Òan overdeveloped sense of my own dignityÓ, is unapologetic.
	www.sundayherald.com /28356 (1612 words)

	RailStaff :: The Industry's Select Newspaper
		Matthew Parris, one-time Tory MP is, we understand, reduced to penning populist drivel in the Murdoch press.
		Parris acknowledges the need for commuter railways in the south-east but seems to infer that rural and long distance services cost more than they’re worth.
		Odd is it not, that Matthew Parris had not realised this as the local MP, odder still that he feels qualified to pronounce on the industry in a national newspaper.
	www.railstaff.co.uk /cgi/artman/exec/view.cgi/8/328 (930 words)

	Britain: Matthew Parris and the tsunami disaster Revelling
		Politically, Parris is known as a “liberal” Tory and urbane commentator, not someone who would be expected to pen such a crude response.
		Parris is unable to conceal his morbid fascination with the scale of the tsunami and the vast numbers of dead and suffering:
		When Parris tries to justify his fascination with destruction and death, he frames this as a response to the lyrics of “Imagine”, the song by the late John Lennon.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/feb2005/parr-f09_prn.shtml (1182 words)

	Power Line: The Shawcross divergence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sir, Matthew Parris (Comment, August 13) invites me and others who supported the overthrow of Saddam to admit that we were wrong and apologise.
		It is simply not true, as Mr Parris claims, that Iraq "is going to hell in a handcart." Millions of Iraqis have had great successes in rebuilding large parts of the country.
		Matthew Parris's great talent would be better employed supporting rather than denigrating it.
	powerlineblog.com /archives/011462.php (437 words)

	Cognative Dissident: Rooting For Disaster
		Matthew Parris is a liberal conservative who used to be a Tory MP.
		Parris' was simply saying that he accepts disasters, and chaos is part of our world.
		Parris watches the world react to this disaster as if it were a football game, and he's rooting for civilization to lose.
	cognativedissident.blogspot.com /2005/01/rooting-for-disaster.html (3170 words)

	An audience with Matthew Parris
		Notting Hill Gate Library is to host its fourth 'An evening with' this Thursday, 20 June 2002, with renowned journalist Matthew Parris.
		Matthew Parris was brought up in South Africa and will include details of his autobiography "Outsider" in his talk.
		Matthew Parris is sure to entertain and amuse his audience on Thursday night.
	www.rbkc.gov.uk /news/pressrelease/n020618.asp (146 words)

	Life and Health \| Fashion and style \| Simon Mills: Journalist Andrew Marr ditches the shampoo.
		Author Matthew Parris never washes his hair, we learned this week.
		Matthew Parris is nursing a skinny latte from Caffé Nero.
		According to Parris, after a month or so of exposure to light and air, Marr's hair, once so cruelly stripped of its natural oils, will restore its natural equilibrium.
	lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk /fashion/story/0,,1794030,00.html (1154 words)

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