10:38am
There's a slightly odd feature in the Guardian about 'reader's block'. I can't say I understand what they're on about. I read books, and have never wanted not to.
But I did like the response of Germaine Greer in the accompanying feature. I never thought I'd write this, but: I feel exactly the same as Germaine Greer.
Have you experienced reader's block?
It's just a different world. I read all the time; I can't stop reading. It might apply to my assistant, but she is on holiday, so she is probably reading like mad. Could you recommend a book to get people reading again?
Oh God, I don't read novels! Why do people think that reading a book means reading a fucking novel? You finish reading the book and you think "Well, that's over. There's four hours down the drain."
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9:53am
Oh dear. The Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski lays into Melanie on CentreRight:
This person lambasts me on the report published yesterday from the International Development Select Committee of which I am a member without even bothering to pick up a phone to check her facts. Why do people accept such lazy and inaccurate reporting. I enclose below two communications I have had with the Chairman of this Committee.
He then goes on to publish some correspondence he's had with the Committee's chairman, which explains how he "has distanced himself from his fellow Committee members for advocating negotiations with Hamas, the Palestinian militant organisation."
Oh dear. I fear Mr Kawczynski is either an idiot or incompetent, and probably both. The thing is...he signed the report. He put his name to it. He supported its recommendations. Clearly, and unambiguously.
And here's what Melanie wrote:
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9:21am
If I hear another Labour MP say they are going to learn the lessons from Glasgow East I'll thwceam and thwceam and make myself sick!
Douglas Alexander has just joined in, saying that he promises to learn the lessons. In which case we now know for certain that he breaks his promises.
Because the lesson is written in 80' high scarlet neon lights, and it is made up of four words: Brown is a loser.
Any response other than getting rid of Brown does not involve learning any lesson at all. Every time any electorate has been given the chance to speak - whether in by-elections or local elections, or even the much-derided polls - they have said one thing, loudly: Brown is a loser.
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1:53pm
I have a piece in today's Jewish Chronicle on dealing with Islamism. (Link provided asap.) Here it is:
There are, apparently, two ways to interpret the Hamas Covenant:
The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: 'The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him...’
According to some, signatories to that genocidal call to arms against Jews are not all extremists. They are, in fact, the very people we should embrace to defeat militant Islamists.
Two weeks ago, IslamExpo was staged at Olympia in London. It was, the organisers maintained: “Europe’s largest celebration of
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12:03pm
Mystifying. Utterly mystifying. Mamma Mia is simply unadulterated crap.
Mind you, I often seem to find myself at odds with the received wisdom. On which note, I was looking forward to seeing the adaptation of Amanda Foreman's wonderful biography of Georgiana until I discovcered that the title role is being played by the awful Keira Knightley, whose very name depresses me.
BTW, apologies for the rather frothy posts today. I'm on the penultimate day of the final chapter of my new book, so my focus is elsewhere!
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