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• mototom on Incessant Hounding: John Nott's flouncing was in response to the equanimous Robin Day's "here today gone tomorrow" Defence Secretary jibe. I think.
• Bernard Porter on Incessant Hounding: Thanks - I’ve been waiting for someone to say that. I find Humphrys’ and Paxman’s ‘interviewing’ style appalling too – even when their vil...
• semitone on Return to the Cayman Islands: I'm not convinced you can blame it on the trochee. There's a theory doing the rounds that because every Republican president since 1928 was elected wi...
• David Gordon on Managerial Empowerment: Fascinating. Unimportant subjects such as, say, climate change or Latin American "disappearances" (the previous two entries in the LRB blog) get spar...
• Robert Hanks on Managerial Empowerment: "If universities are as managerialist as BP says, why do they have a general reputation for administrative inefficiency?"You're assuming that mana...

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