Every ‘tittle and jot’

British writer/blogger Norman Geras took a comedic swipe at (London) Times columnist David Aaronovitch for making “a serious error” by merely commenting on the pending marriage of Prince William and that commoner woman:

"David's error, however, is not that he's underestimated the scope and intensity of the interest. He plainly hasn't. No, it's that he's come out and said that he isn't interested and that he shares this lack of interest with many others. Can't he see that, by declaring a lack of interest, he's already partly caved in to the wave of interest he's lamenting? He's helped to feed it by adding his voice to the national conversation. What you've got to do is just totally ignore it. You show your lack of interest by not looking at anything about the royal wedding, not reading a single line, not even mentioning it. You say nothing at all. Like me."

"Oh oh! I, too, am done for. I blame Aaronovitch; he set me up."

Heh. (I lifted the phrase “tittle and jot” -- it means "details" in American -- from Geras’ blog post. So veddy delightfully English.)