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I cannot go along with this nonsense. Corbyn cannot write a foreword to Hobson? Salvini cannot quote Ezra Pound? I would think on the contrary that every educated person needs to have read Hobson and Pound
thetimes.co.uk/article/corbyn…
We seem to be getting rather close to that old Soviet style of regarding ideas. A book on Locke would start with 100 pages denouncing him as a bourgeois, then on page 100, “nevertheless one can draw one or two valuable insights from this bourgeois writer”
I must be old-fashioned. When I meet a person I want to know if she is a good, sincere, ethical person. When I meet a book I want to know whether it is an intelligent, original, eye-opening book
The alternative view, that books are dangerous, suspicious and ultimately avoidable things - that I find abhorrent
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A global shipping lane could connect East Asia and Europe if China's Maritime Silk Road joins Russia's Northern Sea Route, Vladimir Putin told world leaders as they gathered for a Belt and Road meeting in Beijing.
Can you see what is interesting about this?
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It takes a sort of Kissingerian discipline so contrary to US instincts it is, but the best way for the US to counter China may well be to rely on Europe + Russia or India as independent poles
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To get this straight, it is a moral disgrace for Jeremy Corbyn to write a foreword to book by the liberal J.A.Hobson - my newspaper's former South Africa correspondent - but not for Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and countless other Labour figures to approvingly cite him.
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