tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post6895732039801477222..comments2023-11-05T03:05:16.380-08:00Comments on No Useless Leniency: On Living in a BackwaterBenjaminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18237178500472453910noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post-69731329140193137112010-01-31T02:16:12.326-08:002010-01-31T02:16:12.326-08:00The NLR's notorious oscillation between tackli...The NLR's notorious oscillation between tackling "the problem of England" (or the break-up of Britain) and finding it all beneath contempt continues. It's as if the cretinism and bad taste of one's enemies took the sails out of critique (impossible for many to dignify Blairism with the kind of analyses that responded to Thatcher's authoritarian populism). In any case, perhaps a time to revisit English questions such as the origins of the present crisis and the components of the national culture?Savonarolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08601032824561603860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post-5144938144244827972010-01-30T04:38:10.908-08:002010-01-30T04:38:10.908-08:00It's a little rum however - can't he write...It's a little rum however - can't he write another essay just for the book? Ah, doubting Perry's wisdom, this way deviation liesBenjaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18237178500472453910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7038706923946698710.post-73358492536258719852010-01-29T08:09:05.420-08:002010-01-29T08:09:05.420-08:00I've been reading The New Old World on-off for...I've been reading The New Old World on-off for the last month, and while it's vintage stuff, I suspect this admittedly amusing bon mot is an excuse for not having an LRB piece on Britain that he could then cannibalise for the book. Especially as Blair and Blairism is mentioned so often in the book as inspiration for the 'reforming' tendencies in the German, French and Italian left...owen hatherleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943115307136493045noreply@blogger.com