Saturday 7 April 2012

Raise Your Glasses

On the bus home from a highly profitable lunch meeting in Newcastle, I noticed that The Queen's Head in Annfield Plain had changed its pub sign. That sign now depicts Elizabeth II. The first such that I have ever seen. But, I trust, very far from the last.
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15 comments:

  1. Anonymous7 April 2012 at 19:06

    You've seen too many pubs alreadty. Or is you stalking students who expose you for stupidity and fraud normal behaviour?

    How are the reviews going?

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  2. David Lindsay7 April 2012 at 19:07

    There is obviously someone here who has been on the pop, and it is not I.

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  3. Bernard Gilpin7 April 2012 at 19:12

    I'd like to buy your book but I want to know what the reviews have been like first. Where can I read them?

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  4. David Lindsay7 April 2012 at 19:14

    In a forthcoming collection, apparently. Not my project, of course. But you will know as soon as I do.

    In the meantime, though:

    “David Lindsay has generated a brilliant reconciliation of the conflicting strains of the Labour Tradition and is worthy of the closest attention.” Dr Maurice Glasman, Lord Glasman of Stoke Newington and Stamford Hill; Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and Director of the Faith and Citizenship Programme, London Metropolitan University; founder of Blue Labour.

    “This book is well researched, is full of facts and deals with contemporary and historical political and social issues. It comes from the left but it should also appeal to those who are concerned with and interested in the great issues and how they are dealt with by our political and other institutions. It is well worth reading.” David Stoddart, Lord Stoddart of Swindon; Labour MP for Swindon, 1970-1983; Government Whip, 1975-1978.

    “Current orthodoxy – both in economic policy and right across the board – has so manifestly failed us that we desperately need some fresh thinking and a different way of looking at our problems. That is precisely what David Lindsay provides in this stimulating book.” Professor Bryan Gould, Labour MP for Southampton Test, 1974-1979; Labour MP for Dagenham, 1983-1994; Shadow Cabinet Member, 1986-1994; Leadership Candidate, 1992.

    “Before Red Tory and Blue Labour there was David Lindsay. He was arguably the first to announce a postliberal politics of paradox, and to delve into the deep, unwritten British past in order to craft, theoretically, an alternative British and international future. It is high time that the singular and yet wholly pertinent writings of this County Durham Catholic Labour prophet receive a wider circulation.” Professor John Milbank, Professor in Religion, Politics and Ethics, University of Nottingham.

    “Parliamentary democracy was not invented in 1689. Banking was established by the Venetians, not the Dutch. Much in our history and development owes much to complex ideas and traditions, especially to Jacobitism. David Lindsay’s highly original book explains why and how.” Dr Eveline Cruickshanks, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London; Chairman of the Jacobite Studies Trust.

    “David Lindsay has written a provocative, informed, and idiosyncratic work that will intrigue those interested in the intersection of Christian social thought, populism, and Anglo-American politics.” Mark Stricherz, author of Why the Democrats are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People’s Party.

    “An excellent College Tutor here at Collingwood.” Professor Joe Elliott AcSS, Principal of Collingwood College, Durham.

    Now, on topic, please.

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  5. Anonymous7 April 2012 at 23:46

    You don't need reviews. You are David Lindsay. The straight-to-festschrift shift that is being planned proves my point. From publication to Essays Presented To David Lindsay with no intervening period of reviews in the papers. Sounds about right to those of us who have known you a long time.

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  6. Anonymous8 April 2012 at 21:23

    That must be wear the review copies went. You are a true class act, Mr. L. Happy Easter.

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  7. James9 April 2012 at 00:27

    Isn't he just? "Review you in the public prints. No, no, Dr Lindsay. We shall be reviewing you, if "review" be the word, in the form of a festschrift." The website of at least one hugely important theological research centre calls you Dr Lindsay on its list of members, so I suppose you now have it by acclaim, like the Dissenting divines of old in recognition that they would have had it if it had not been for the unjust and outdated politico-religious subscription requirements of the day. It looks as if even much of the academic and political-journalistic mainstreams view that way, what with that nomenclature in one case and the coming book of "reviews" in the other.

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  8. Anonymous9 April 2012 at 08:25

    Do you get it by having two books commended by John Milbank, or by fighting his corner against Kamm, or both?

    The idea of you as our very own sheikh by popular acclaim has an undeniable attraction to it. The Isaac Watts, John Lingard and Samuel Johnson of our age, Dr David Lindsay.

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  9. Mabel9 April 2012 at 08:51

    You have always reminded me of Dr. Johnson. And you have only barely less entitlement to it than "Dr." Damian Thompson, now Senior Research Fellow of the Ten Pints A Day Institute of Dole Queue Studies, pretendy theologian on the back of a Lower Second history degree and a bad PhD in sociology that he had to do at the LSE because Oxford would not let him in.

    The Catholic Herald has tired of the extreme capitalism and Israel First warmongery of a doctrinally and sexually deviant pseudo-academic who merely happens to like the camp side of the Latin Mass. It has sacked him from his day job as its Editor in Chief. Based on the tearing to pieces of his most recent effort on Telegraph Blogs, the Telegraph's patience should soon be exhausted and even his hobby will be taken away from him.

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  10. David Lindsay9 April 2012 at 09:12

    On topic, please.

    My, but you are all on here early for a Bank Holiday Monday morning.

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  11. Anonymous9 April 2012 at 10:44

    We pray for a reconciliation between David Lindsay & Damian Thompson.

    We pray for Damian to have the decency to forgive the author of that awful "Mabel" blog when the time comes for the author to realise the error of his ways.

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  12. Anonymous9 April 2012 at 22:26

    "The website of at least one hugely important theological research centre calls you Dr Lindsay on its list of members, so I suppose you now have it by acclaim"

    A very tactful way of pointing out that Mr Lindsay is now laying claim to a doctorate to which he is not entitled. The Chad's tradition?

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  13. David Lindsay9 April 2012 at 22:37

    I don't know which institution that is. I have some level of involvement with several. I am occasionally called "Dr Lindsay" by mistake, but more often people assume that I am a priest.

    As for Chad's, if you mean Duane Arnold (whom I have never met, but who once wrote to me as "Fr Lindsay" before I had ever set foot in Chad's - it's a long story), then whatever else he might have been guilty of, he was certainly innocent of the charges relating to his CV, as the briefest of Google searches would have confirmed. And no one has ever questioned his published PhD (Dunelm) (Saint Chad's), which by all accounts is still in print and rather good. A very queer set-up indeed, all of that.

    If it's questions over degrees that you want, then you need to look into Kamm.

    On topic, please.

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  14. James9 April 2012 at 22:53

    No, I stand by it, conferred by popular acclaim as it was on Samuel Johnson and on the Recusant priests and Dissenting ministers who were more learned than anyone at unreformed Oxbridge.

    Johnson was certainly a Tory in a Whig age, and probably a Jacobite as well as having Catholic sympathies that you have blogged about. The Recusants' and Dissenters' disqualifications were obvious.

    You are in a very similar position, the voice of a sort of Jacobitism, a sort of Recusancy and a sort of Dissent in our own Whig, Conformist age. We should design a hood for you, Dr Lindsay.

    "Let Lindsay, House of Lindsay, rejoice with
    Omphalocarpa a type of bur,
    God be gracious to David Lindsay."

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  15. David Lindsay9 April 2012 at 23:00

    Now casting yourself as Christopher Smart, I see.

    Fun though this is, I shall not be putting up any more off-topic comments.

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