December 2010
19 posts
“Sheer stupid vandalism, like smashing champagne bottles as a drunken...”
– Philip Pullman
“Blair made it very clear to Gordon that he had to come across as tough; the News...”
– Ed Balls via Anthony Seldon via Andrew Sparrow
“But if one looks at the key words—old, belle, lettres, dilettante, amateur—in...”
– David Bromwich
“If Wall Street makes its profits by moving money around from place to place and...”
– Taibbi
“Yes, it is possible that UK supply capacity disappeared despite relatively low...”
– Adam Posen [PDF] with my bold
“Five [boroughs] can guarantee they won’t turn street lights off....”
– Dave Hill
“Like those lab rats who repeatedly shock themselves for rewards, they are so...”
– digby’s compatriots
“Progressives laudably seek to oppose injustice by deploying government power as...”
– Wilkinson
“The government’s answer is that exports and investment will do the trick. The...”
– Philip Stephens, who mentions a group of ‘fundamentalist’ Treasury mandarins I hadn’t known about
“The operations in the south of Afghanistan, in Kandahar and in Helmand provinces...”
– Afghanistan Call to Reason. ‘You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan’ were Richard Holbrooke’s last words
“Mr Brown’s introduction established an unpleasant tone from the outset of the...”
– dfglove
“To a photon, traversing an infinite distance seems to take no time at all....”
– John Leslie
“Murdoch may have lastingly coarsened British public life, but if he did, he did...”
– John Lanchester
“Apropos the transport shutdown due to the volcanic cloud there have been the...”
– Alan Bennett
“In the last five years, pupils from Richmond upon Thames have received almost...”
– Jeevan Vasagar
“Nor is it true that self-interest generally is enlightened; more often...”
– Keynes (via)
“Larry King: What about the statement by the US Defence Secretary Robert Gates...”
– RIA Novosti
sms
sms i: A straw in the wind. Watch it slide into Time’s Shredder, along with everything else.
sms ii: There’s an Updike quote which I’ll confess to having read in U and I:
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
The last words are meant to seem a self-evident...
