Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Sunday 16 October 2011
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What a shame that an Asian shopkeeper favoured by the student shoppers of Cambridge failed to beat Lord Sainsbury for the Chancellorship of that University. He could have started a trend. The choice of Sir Thomas Allen for Durham is splendid indeed. But next time, it could have been Sammy Sultana.
"Next time it could have been..."
ReplyDelete"Next time it could be" or "This time it could have been". The future pluperfect suffers as a tense from being a) unwieldy and b) non-existent.
It is unwieldy, but it exists. The arts and humanities would be impossible without it.
ReplyDeleteNo future pluperfect? What a very pedestrian mind you must have, begor.
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