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Hoggartian paradox
The result has been the Hoggartian paradox of programmes that managed to be both, in Simon’s words, ‘scaringly revealing’ and largely covering ‘old and well-travelled ground’.
Hoggartian paradox
The result has been the Hoggartian paradox of programmes that managed to be both, in Simon’s words, ‘scaringly revealing’ and largely covering ‘old and well-travelled ground’. I am sorry that he was so disappointed and, of course, I am as sure that he would have done a better job of interviewing Mr Blair as I am that his criticisms are utterly unmotivated by envy.
David Aaronovitch
By email
In defence of Ms Gibbons
Mr Liddle might also care to reflect that if Ms Gibbons praises the warmth of the ordinary Sudanese people, it could be that she is not ‘thick’ or suffering from ‘congenital idiocy’ but that, having actually lived in Sudan, she knows what she is talking about.
David Eddyshaw
Swansea
Give me a medal
‘Can’t do that — health & safety — more than my job’s worth ...etc.’
‘Well you hold the ladder while I go up and you tell me what to do.’
‘OK.’ [Amazing initiative!]
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January 10th, 2008 3:34amJohn Christopher Williams takes issue with Paul Johnson's description of Henry VIII as the English Stalin, but how many of us think of Stalin as the Georgian Dictator? I think that the fact that Stalin was not Russian makes it entirely apposite to refer to the Henry VIII as the English Stalin.