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Yearly Archives: 2003
Pilgrim’s protest
Mark Pilgrim has lost his temper about the W3C abolishing a couple of tags in the XHTML specification. I don’t understand why. That may not be news. I understand, at best, about half of what I read on his site: … Continue reading Continue reading
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Encounter with an old bruiser
I had to ring Denis Healey today in re Conquest: they were both in the communist party at Oxford inthe late Thirties. He was delighted to hear Bob was still alive. “When you are over eighty,”, he said, “all your … Continue reading Continue reading
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The Suez Fallacy
I have noticed a new distortion of thought in the British Left: I will call it the Suez Fallacy becasue it appeared to me most clearly in a report on opposition to the war among Labour constituency chairmen. The term … Continue reading Continue reading
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big self restraint
“Have begun big self-restraint programme with no drinks or smokes until 7.30pm and then only beer and wine till 10 or so. When I go out to lunch etc. I can have what I like. Works bloody well: I can … Continue reading Continue reading
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more puerility
Another Conquest fragment: When the earl pulled out his bloody great tool at tea To do the page-boy wrong, His chaplain cried in incredulity, ‘How long, oh Lord, how long!’. Continue reading
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Vanity
A narrow escape for Professor Dawkins, I think: I was just rung up by BBC Four, a digital TV channel, and asked if I would be interested in presenting a programme about him, and interviewing him. The woman talking to … Continue reading Continue reading
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get online
Don’t be a hamster! This note is for all the francophone readers: you know, when you were being taught in school, that none of this stuff seemed as if it would be any use? Well, here’s the proof of that … Continue reading Continue reading
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So I’m smug
But this horrendous burst of redesigning, which culminated in the rolling, changing subtitle under the new logo, made me feel, for a moment or two, that I actually knew what the hell was going on with MT. The only hassle … Continue reading Continue reading
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Astonishing blog
I was rambling and found this — enchanting, shameless, sad. Also, utterly sweet. Odd that it would once have been a much more forced newspaper column. Continue reading
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zionism and anti-semitism
My old colleague Richard (D.) North just pointed me at a long, but incisive piece by Geoffrey Wheatcroft in the Spectator. The historical point of the argument was to show how many Jews had been anti-Zionist in the early years … Continue reading Continue reading
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