Monday, November 19, 2007
VAT and Scruton
Sorry, sorry, here I am. Woke up full of dangerous energy and, as a result, did my VAT - for my American readers, this is a vile and complex government thing specially designed to harm us. This resulted, as it always does, in a total loss of my will to live. I then cheered myself up by buying that iPhone with which I am now playing happily. Of the wider ways and woes of the world I have nothing to say. Oh, except that you should read Roger Scruton's Gentle Regrets. Shamefully, Roger being a friend of mine, I have not read this. It is a delight. Any books that tells you on its first page that 'Wisdom is truth that consoles' should be read with gratitude. Lord knows what this afternoon will hold.
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Yes its a wonderful book. Makes him seem less austere. There was a very good review of it by Michael Burleigh in the Literary Review. After your last posting, a veritable deluge visited SE London, but I'm still on the bridge.
ReplyDeleteNothing to say on the preposterous lifeline thrown by Israel to the Worst Team in the World?
ReplyDeleteVAT to Americans means the pittance of dough you get back at the airport if you bought something really expensive in G.B. and remembered to save the receipt, fill out the VAT form. (It's made difficult so you won't do it and the country can keep your extra $.)
ReplyDeleteHow mad would you have to be before you did my tax return too?
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