tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post3691912892146362683..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Hal: Any Theme Will DoBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-67021932006507338692008-02-13T18:37:00.000+00:002008-02-13T18:37:00.000+00:00Brown is actually very much like Blair without the...Brown is actually very much like Blair without the psychopathic charm.<BR/>Both lunge far to the right when backed in a corner and both can't stop spinning. Labour under Blair went far more to the right than the conervatives would have dared. For Blair that's no doubt an achievement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-74689638744590175002008-02-13T16:04:00.000+00:002008-02-13T16:04:00.000+00:00I love that Marcus Aurelius line. So much so, that...I love that Marcus Aurelius line. So much so, that I think I might throw it into dinner party chit-chat to demonstrate what a sophisticated fellow I am.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-89093931600151653672008-02-13T12:09:00.000+00:002008-02-13T12:09:00.000+00:00History, Bryan, social and economic. But to-day, i...History, Bryan, social and economic. But to-day, it is attempting to find a bridge, otherwise a goodly part of last summer will be filed under 'future use'. Or as Gray put it 'mouldering heap'.Vincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09442327549417743472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-85915070774883160812008-02-13T10:22:00.000+00:002008-02-13T10:22:00.000+00:00Great insight there Bryan.Brown's automatic respon...Great insight there Bryan.Brown's automatic response to anything is to chuck a new army of his bureaucratic clients at it. Don't be unfair to Marcus Aurelius. When a publishers bidding for Blair's autobiography showed him three books (including one really, really good one) as examples of what they do, he looked perplexed, as if he had never seen one.....they found this unsettling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-64032103800441656432008-02-13T09:39:00.000+00:002008-02-13T09:39:00.000+00:00You appear to have the most fascinating job ,Vince...You appear to have the most fascinating job ,Vince. What is it exactly?Bryan Appleyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-68097960966309288282008-02-13T09:29:00.000+00:002008-02-13T09:29:00.000+00:00Marcus Aurelius and Gray are apt to what I am doin...Marcus Aurelius and Gray are apt to what I am doing this morning, an examination of the records of the war graves commission for Belgium during WW1. My God, but some families took one hell of a mowing.<BR/>Thank you for the poem, I needed it.Vincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09442327549417743472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-43057746623831711242008-02-13T09:12:00.000+00:002008-02-13T09:12:00.000+00:00Yes Philip - but don't forget we voted for it!Yes Philip - but don't forget we voted for it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-50673612337600829402008-02-13T09:01:00.000+00:002008-02-13T09:01:00.000+00:00He's not big and he's not clever and he never was....He's not big and he's not clever and he never was. We have lived off the boom caused by cheap money over the last twenty years and saved nothing. <BR/>Brown's greatest achievement is to have bought votes by stealthily to have increased the bloated army of useless public servants (and their pension entitlements) during the boom times and put us in hock for decades to come to 'public/private Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com