It would not matter on the radio, but Scott Mills and Matt Goodwin do look arrestingly alike. Goodwin could replace Mills, except that he has shown the way of doing so far more cheaply by using Artificial Intelligence instead. Never work yourself out of a job, Matty Boy. If you really did have ties to the working class, then you would know that.
Goodwin's retort to his latest critics, that his concern was now book sales, is perfectly valid. He is no longer in academia, and indeed everyone now calls him "Mr Goodwin"; his lack of objection is another sign that he is far from prolier than thou, since horny-handed sons and daughters of the toil can be very insistent on their doctorates. Whatever has become of the candidates who were doctored under Professor Goodwin? And if bilingualism is such a problem, then would he end all teaching of modern foreign languages? If not, why not? A former humanities professor, is he himself a monoglot anglophone?
Not being a mother tongue English-speaker did not prevent Rowan Williams from becoming Archbishop of Canterbury, and his successor but one knew exactly which buttons to press at her installation, from the Kyrie in the same Urdu as those leaflets, to the Gospel in the Spanish of both countries that had outstanding territorial disputes with the United Kingdom. That Gospel was read by a Mexican whose church had very little connection to the Church of England, having been founded in 1860 when dissident Catholic priests had secured a bishop from the American Episcopalians, who had themselves been constituted 75 years earlier due to treason against the Crown, and whose own Orders derived from the Scottish Episcopalians, notable for their persistent Jacobitism. As for Urdu, it was the parental language of my schoolmate who has since won a BAFTA. Over to you, Goodwin.
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