tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post800508247913051675..comments2024-03-27T06:56:10.255+00:00Comments on Broad Oak Magazine: Spurious signalsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-72890700892614304552016-09-23T18:02:20.803+01:002016-09-23T18:02:20.803+01:00Lovely to hear from you, HG!Lovely to hear from you, HG!Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-24479139670213184282016-09-23T10:45:34.998+01:002016-09-23T10:45:34.998+01:00Virtue signalling is a pleasure to watch but when ...Virtue signalling is a pleasure to watch but when it comes to real communication speaking as you eat is more powerful. Consider <br /><br />'The last upsurge of left-wing militancy in the 1970s had Eric Hobsbawm, E.P. Thompson and other formidable socialist thinkers behind it. Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty and Danny Blanchflower looked like their successors. They too have produced formidable work on how to make society fairer. They agreed to help Corbyn, but walked away after discovering that Corbynism is just a sloganising personality cult: an attitude, rather than a programme to reform the country. That attitude is banal in content, conspiracist in essence, utopian in aspiration and vicious in practice.'<br /><br />That last sentence is a joy to behold.hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-76314292382970571882016-09-22T13:54:46.830+01:002016-09-22T13:54:46.830+01:00And? No worse than tattoos, piercings and gauges.And? No worse than tattoos, piercings and gauges.Paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07952088638231881617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-87269496696839709142016-09-21T15:57:22.148+01:002016-09-21T15:57:22.148+01:00Paddington - careful, the idea could catch on.Paddington - careful, the idea could catch on.A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-81915971329630260412016-09-21T14:06:14.609+01:002016-09-21T14:06:14.609+01:00Just paint one's behind red like a baboon inst...Just paint one's behind red like a baboon instead?Paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07952088638231881617noreply@blogger.com