Tuesday 17 November 2009

Sarah Palin's Book

Like Thatcher's before it and Blair's after it, a remarkable thing: a book written by someone who has never read a book.
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous19 November 2009 at 00:24

    Do you honestly believe it is possible to graduate from Oxford, as Blair did, or Cambridge, as Thatcher did, without having read a book?

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  2. David Lindsay19 November 2009 at 00:26

    Evidently.

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  3. Anonymous19 November 2009 at 00:29

    Evidently you believe it, or evidently it is possible?

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  4. David Lindsay19 November 2009 at 00:31

    Both.

    And Thatcher went to Oxford, not Cambridge. She now enthusiastically raises money for Cambridge, but then Oxford refused her an honorary degree back in her heyday.

    I'm not sure who the last Cambridge PM was. Until Brown, the rule for a very long time was an Oxford degree or (Churchill, Callaghan, Major) no degree. Major's Cabinet was heavily Cambridge but none of them ever became PM.

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