Had an intense outing tonight rating at 30 spm for two long pieces in a row. The crew rows so well, unless we are in wind, or in someone’s wake. We combine aestheticism with stamina, as opposed to quick brute power which quickly fades. In the wind, unfortunately, aesthetic stamina is less useful, so we […]
The best word in the French language:
NON.
Best thing that’s come out of their country since Arsene Wenger.
Osama bin Laden has been found hiding in the trophy room at Old Trafford. When asked why he was there he said that it reminded him of the Afghan caves; cold, dark, empty and recently taken over by Americans.
Two posts today, then. In response to my castigating him for supporting the EU constitution, the Europhile Thinktank associate sent me the following message:
Dear ‘blade’.
Much as I adore this great - indeed, immense - country of ours, a nation which, to be blunt (and use a phrase from Niall Ferguson) ‘made the modern world’ […]
Sorry for lack of posting. I have been snowed under with social, Think-tank and sporting business. We have a lot to get through, including:
* Rowing update
* Think-tank Uzbekistan update
* Trip to Cardiff- FA Cup Final
* Colleague’s visit to college- Mad hatters
To coincide with my ever-deepening foray into evangelical Christian discourse, I have started to develop […]
Europe unites in hatred of French
I just have to link to choice sections of this article detailing a country wide survey in Europe regarding the perception of France. It appeared in today’s Torygraph, written by Henry Samuel.
Language, history, cooking and support for rival football teams still divide Europe. But when everything else fails, one glue […]
Just got this message from the Russian Princess:
Dear Blade,
Do you think you could get me some highlighters in John Lewis in the Grafton Centre?
The ones I need I are Faber-Castell ( called textliners, but they are really very good)
They used to come in packs of four (blue pink green yellow), which is fine for […]
Just got back from wine and cheese with the Russian Princess.
Yesterday was really beautiful in Cambridge: Dry heat, clear, warm air, blue sky, green grass, blue water, grey stone. I ate lunch from Martin’s tearoom, with the Thinktank belligerati, in the college deerpark. We discussed our London launch, and creating a journal synthesising the […]
It has been a very busy week, and we have a lot to get through. This includes:
*Rowing updates
*Irshad Manji’s visit to the Thinktank
*Phillip Bobbit’s banal talk
*Graduate Hall
Rowing training for bumps has become very intense. We have an outside coach, and I am forced to get up at 6am twice weekly, as well as attend two […]
I represent the untold story of the general election: the effect that UKIP (and to a lesser extent Veritas) has had on the outcome. Overall, on current results, the combined votes of these two parties affected the outcome of 25 seats which might have otherwise gone to the Tories.
They are as follows:
Battersea (Lab hold) Majority: […]
Memo to the Tories: Your stunning results overturning Labour in London seat after London seat should tell you something. We are sick of being bled dry to fund The North and Wales, and a party that campaigns on low taxation will do well. Let’s get Essex Man back into the main picture where he belongs, […]
Japan Today has reported that the Simon Wiesenthal Center is urging Lawsons, a Japanese retail chain, to pull an anti-Semitic book from its stores. The book is called ‘Yudaya No Seikousha Ga Oshieru Ookanemochi Ni Naru Hito No Houteishiki’ - A Successful Jew Teaches the Method for Becoming Fabulously Rich.
I want a copy.
The European Affairs editor of my Thinktank has sent me the following message, in response to my UKIP claims, and their underlying reason:
Blade,
…Indeed - citizens from across the Union can vote in any state general election. This means that the 300,000 or so Britons that have moved to Spain and the 300,000 that are in […]
I suppose I ought to blog on the upcoming election, and that party whose vote I will cast. Well my decision was made today, in the quad. I was having a mildly interesting conversation with a German LLM student, and I jokingly asked him whom he would vote for on Thursday, attempting to gauge his […]
Well I have just arrived back from my hard rowing outing, which began at 06:10am and went on until 08:20am. We rowed down to the Lock, back up, did a couple of reaches, and then went back down to the Lock and up again. Dew and moisture turned to morning sun, which made up for […]