Wednesday, 21 June 2006
Niall Ferguson:
you can tell it clearly troubles him that there will soon be a minaret on the Oxford skyline. it gets a mention in his new book and i've read him note this some time ago somewhere else. it genuinely does seem to sit a little uneasily for him cos otherwise we wouldn't be having this new observation couched in much the same terms, and with the clear impression behind his writing that this is a bit of a scab for him. well, that's the inference i'm getting for at least the second time, following a decent passage of time.
in this new book, it looks like he's trying to pass it off as part of some neat aside, a pun if you will, about Edward Gibbon but - lor knows - that just sounds bollocks.
so have some fruit tea and leave it out mate.
(to be fair to Niall, he does describe himself as an optimist and Americans who don't want anything to do with the outside world get short shrift from him.)
MAKE IT IN THE STUDIO and NOT IN THE GARAGE
you can tell it clearly troubles him that there will soon be a minaret on the Oxford skyline. it gets a mention in his new book and i've read him note this some time ago somewhere else. it genuinely does seem to sit a little uneasily for him cos otherwise we wouldn't be having this new observation couched in much the same terms, and with the clear impression behind his writing that this is a bit of a scab for him. well, that's the inference i'm getting for at least the second time, following a decent passage of time.
in this new book, it looks like he's trying to pass it off as part of some neat aside, a pun if you will, about Edward Gibbon but - lor knows - that just sounds bollocks.
so have some fruit tea and leave it out mate.
(to be fair to Niall, he does describe himself as an optimist and Americans who don't want anything to do with the outside world get short shrift from him.)
MAKE IT IN THE STUDIO and NOT IN THE GARAGE
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