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!
Have you been sent down from Oxford then?
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.)
Ah 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.
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!