The view from my window, a few minutes ago (apologies for crappy camera phone pic):
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[...] | 2:52pm by Jim Bliss I clicked over to The Virtual Stoa just now and noticed that Chris had posted a picture of a double rainbow. I figured this was as good a reason as any to post this photo taken from my window a couple of [...]
Yes – I’m no longer allowed within a dozen miles of Carfax…
(I’ve moved this term to a new teaching post in Cambridge, lecturing on mostly twentieth-century political thought, covering for David Runciman of the Politics Department, Trinity Hall, the London Review of Books, and the soon-to-be-defunct Observer Sports Monthly while he is enjoying a long-term Leverhulme research award.)
His book on hypocrisy was very interesting; however, I did feel that he didn’t need all the history to make the political point: politicians who say that they’re hypocrites just like everybody else, are not for that reason less dangerous or even less hypocritical.
Obviously, its an omen. After over a decade of Blairite nonsense, we will witness the inevitable triumph of …drumroll…RED TORYISM and the Big Society! Philip Blond will be so happy!
[...] | 2:52pm by Jim Bliss I clicked over to The Virtual Stoa just now and noticed that Chris had posted a picture of a double rainbow. I figured this was as good a reason as any to post this photo taken from my window a couple of [...]
↓ Quote | Posted 16 November, 2009, 2:52 pmHave you been sent down from Oxford then?
↓ Quote | Posted 17 November, 2009, 8:22 amYes – I’m no longer allowed within a dozen miles of Carfax…
(I’ve moved this term to a new teaching post in Cambridge, lecturing on mostly twentieth-century political thought, covering for David Runciman of the Politics Department, Trinity Hall, the London Review of Books, and the soon-to-be-defunct Observer Sports Monthly while he is enjoying a long-term Leverhulme research award.)
↓ Quote | Posted 17 November, 2009, 8:49 amAh yes, the curious chap who is the only person in the world to follow both Wimbledon and MK Franchise. What an odd piece that one was.
↓ Quote | Posted 21 November, 2009, 12:53 pmHis book on hypocrisy was very interesting; however, I did feel that he didn’t need all the history to make the political point: politicians who say that they’re hypocrites just like everybody else, are not for that reason less dangerous or even less hypocritical.
↓ Quote | Posted 24 November, 2009, 4:59 pmObviously, its an omen. After over a decade of Blairite nonsense, we will witness the inevitable triumph of …drumroll…RED TORYISM and the Big Society! Philip Blond will be so happy!
↓ Quote | Posted 26 November, 2009, 3:35 pm