One of the unexpected joys that the blogosphere has brought is is the revival of writings that were originally presented on a serialised basis.
Samuel Pepys diary, for example. ‘Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog’ is a nice variation – a contemporary set of sentiments put to the vulgar rhythms of late-middle English.
Flann O’Brien would be a [...]
Posts on ‘July 24th, 2009’
Eric Blair on fanatics
Detoxifying big decisions
Last week, David Cameron offered a fairly populist ‘bonfire of the quangos’ proposal, with the implication that politicians would take back many of the toxic decisions that they had farmed out to overpaid bureaucrats.
In the FT the other day, Philip Stephens questions the emphasis:
“…broadcasting policy accounts for only about 5 per cent of Ofcom’s workload. Moving it [...]
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