tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.comments2014-08-10T21:59:15.559+00:00the PITCH reviewPITCH reviewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16296115270992431558noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-65971972361698332342012-05-25T17:05:06.070+00:002012-05-25T17:05:06.070+00:00paul is that you?paul is that you?PITCH reviewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296115270992431558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-34029539216021722402012-05-25T16:23:28.982+00:002012-05-25T16:23:28.982+00:00Can you have more pictures, in your posts? Me like...Can you have more pictures, in your posts? Me likely pictures. Speak 1,000 words, etc. <br /><br />But also, concision!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-34335264164806954802012-04-30T17:50:48.442+00:002012-04-30T17:50:48.442+00:00Of Borges? Or Keats ...Of Borges? Or Keats ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-65865853249532468172011-04-03T23:25:36.443+00:002011-04-03T23:25:36.443+00:00Ideology is the rationalisation of moralism.Ideology is the rationalisation of moralism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-12067130893079794552011-02-15T12:21:09.270+00:002011-02-15T12:21:09.270+00:00Governments don’t ask themselves “what can we do t...Governments don’t ask themselves “what can we do that is good for the people?” They ask themselves “how do we persuade people that what we want to do is good for them?MONBIOThttp://www.monbiot.com/2011/02/14/stripped-bare/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-59100434388156879162011-02-10T17:20:02.988+00:002011-02-10T17:20:02.988+00:00i'm also a little sceptical of the 'camero...i'm also a little sceptical of the 'cameron and osborne are ideologues' cw on the british left, but i have to admit it explains the facts pretty well. perhaps i'm splitting hairs when i say i prefer to think of them as, if ideologues, ideologues of elite self-interest. <br /><br />but then where is their <i>political</i> self-interest? for politicians they lack cynicism. you'delong_commenterhttp://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/02/martin-wolf-britains-experiment-in-austerity.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-69679135410491051662011-02-10T17:13:27.390+00:002011-02-10T17:13:27.390+00:00A friend texts with a fair reply: 'I think you...A friend texts with a fair reply: 'I think you over-assign [Cameron] credit or dis-credit. There are 100 or more ministers in Government, and the PM at any one time can only be partly briefed on the literally hundreds of decisions a day that they orchestrate. Primarily you're discussing his reception ---- but the State is a supertanker. It turneth slow. Until we pass April 1st 2011 we arePITCH reviewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296115270992431558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-25073925097397158902010-06-15T11:47:33.710+00:002010-06-15T11:47:33.710+00:00Thanks for doing this! Saved me so much time...Thanks for doing this! Saved me so much time...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-37056211222250270172010-01-25T19:12:44.219+00:002010-01-25T19:12:44.219+00:00The information here is great. I will invite my fr...The information here is great. I will invite my friends here.<br /><br />ThanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-35912974897812522952009-10-18T02:35:09.487+00:002009-10-18T02:35:09.487+00:00The LRB will have all this up and accessible to su...The LRB will have all this up and accessible to subscribers quite soon.that heresiarch guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17853620445779089395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-44283688881932861512009-10-01T15:48:54.239+00:002009-10-01T15:48:54.239+00:00Thank you, this is helpful and time-saving.Thank you, this is helpful and time-saving.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-24301698489535740832009-09-29T11:02:26.152+00:002009-09-29T11:02:26.152+00:00Thank you for all this. It is good to have all the...Thank you for all this. It is good to have all the originals together.<br /><br />Sean PSean Pembertonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15833343170241727445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-20404476290198186742009-04-11T15:18:00.000+00:002009-04-11T15:18:00.000+00:00This is ignorant and meanspirited atheism.This is ignorant and meanspirited atheism.Benjaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12539078553577303937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-21726169231944641952008-11-28T10:09:00.000+00:002008-11-28T10:09:00.000+00:00RAWLSTON'S WRITINGHow is it immature simply not to...<B>RAWLSTON'S WRITING</B><BR/><BR/>How is it immature simply not to believe in a god? That is what atheism is. The 'burning clarity' line is rhetorical straw. The silent cast of a fantasist's fight against the odds, to say so pretentiously.<BR/><BR/>For many, it's not that they have faith in their unfaith, but that they don't have faith. <BR/><BR/>I am slightly surer, but that's hardly relevant. PITCH reviewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296115270992431558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-85485118756020576042008-11-10T12:55:00.000+00:002008-11-10T12:55:00.000+00:00You write very well.You write very well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-39749357723681396902008-07-16T01:12:00.000+00:002008-07-16T01:12:00.000+00:00This is very true. I enjoyed reading this, thank y...This is very true. I enjoyed reading this, thank you.marieblanchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16590971784709170392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-2018000688195356792008-06-06T01:19:00.000+00:002008-06-06T01:19:00.000+00:00Your argument seems to be that because the word 's...Your argument seems to be that because the word 'spin' has application in the field of quantum physics, which works at infinitesimal scales, 'spin' in my political sense therefore doesn't matter.<BR/><BR/>Well done.PITCH reviewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296115270992431558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-85268361996636618342008-06-05T12:24:00.000+00:002008-06-05T12:24:00.000+00:00Where shall I find Muldoon's a(c)c(o)unt of RF's "...Where shall I find Muldoon's a(c)c(o)unt of RF's "Silken Tent"?<BR/><BR/>Literature need not obey *those* laws, it is true. Paratacticism, for example, allows multiple contradictory meanings to reside in the same line at the same time. Why should not a hyphen mark both a digression (the push) and an elaboration (the pull)? Draw a box on a plane; the familiar arrangement of two overlapping CivilizeMehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14191995236748125714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-62568659654164042382008-06-04T17:31:00.000+00:002008-06-04T17:31:00.000+00:00"Spin" in the argot of quantum physics refers to a..."Spin" in the argot of quantum physics refers to a physical property of electrons, reminscient of but absolutely not quite like the spin of bowling balls or planetary bodies, or other objects with physical extent and therefore axes and angular moment:<BR/><BR/>In the physics of the very small / as in the marketing of the modern mall / the spin that spins busily around / actually is not much at CivilizeMehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14191995236748125714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-55209489768272432042008-01-22T18:29:00.000+00:002008-01-22T18:29:00.000+00:00that was a long sentence.that was a long sentence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-44370293775382482842007-12-04T23:51:00.000+00:002007-12-04T23:51:00.000+00:00Passing time had not turned out to make a differen...Passing time had not turned out to make a difference.PITCH reviewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296115270992431558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-75130628953021915052007-12-04T23:26:00.000+00:002007-12-04T23:26:00.000+00:00it took you over a month to register your riposte?...it took you over a month to register your riposte?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-17414176711188998132007-08-30T02:17:00.000+00:002007-08-30T02:17:00.000+00:00HiIn your blog referencing Rachel Campbell Johnsto...Hi<BR/><BR/>In your blog referencing Rachel Campbell Johnstone's reference to Daljit Nagra she makes an even bigger blunder by referring to Nagra as the son of Pakistani immigrants. He is in fact of Indian Sikh background, and not even being aware of this makes me suspect she has not read the book with any real insight, because the Sikh experience is referenced throughout, as is his Indian PITCH reviewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296115270992431558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-82921745265965964002007-08-04T09:14:00.000+00:002007-08-04T09:14:00.000+00:00Shameless, State of Play, Geoffrey Hill reviews......Shameless, State of Play, Geoffrey Hill reviews... is there no end to this man's talent.<BR/><BR/>Excellent piece.puthwuthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606399161863289851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1127677456239025262.post-85948352861719230202007-08-04T08:50:00.000+00:002007-08-04T08:50:00.000+00:00Follow the link for a sample of work.Follow the link for a sample of work.puthwuthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606399161863289851noreply@blogger.com