Martinus Scriblerus

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@Laocailarry Possibly edges it with a PhD in creative writing from UEA

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@lifeisnotanovel @tanjil_rashid_ @NewStatesman The best modern revaluation is Maurice Cowling, _Religion and Public Doctrine_ vol 3 (2001), pp. 571-93 (includes IA Richards too)

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@tanjil_rashid_ @NewStatesman Enjoyed your article Mr Rashid... but alas the portent that Snow represented is manifest in Burnham and the anti-proletarian Labour party; and, fwiw, Leavis had long ceased to be central by the time Burnham was an u/g - his northern class sensitivity is quite different to Leavis'

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@MaxSkjonsberg @LawLiberty What about Duncan Forbes on _Hume’s Philosophical Politics_?

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@Laocailarry It was superseded by a bland, conventional Times-like intelligence - eg, imagine The Telegraph publishing anything like this (from 1997)

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@Laocailarry Michael Gove? Author of Michael Portillo: The Future of the Right?

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@CapelLofft You should read Philip Williamson’s 1999 study

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@LemanWalters There we are. QED

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@LemanWalters Sandbrook is a prig

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@DAaronovitch Potholes

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@VirtueMiami10 Don’t hold your breath Mr Virtue, see https://t.co/fDEbPmkPhU

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@johnmilbank3 Since you mention Hill, Prynne stopped his becoming a Fellow of Caius when he was put forward by another English don

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@johnmilbank3 The spirit of McTaggart lives on

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@ScottGoetz_ Long Covid is more of a psychological phenomenon for such people - it has a charm and plausibility for people who are demoralised - I knew someone who intermitted for two years before finishing their BA, citing L-C as the reason

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@Laocailarry A nonentity/caricature - cf his 'young fogey' Spectator article

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@si_rubinstein Poor old Wittgenstein

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@DanielJHannan He read his Hegel, not to mention Sartre

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@_paullay The finest testimony to Halifax was by Oakeshott in _The politics of faith and the politics of scepticism_ written in the 1950s

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@johnmilbank3 What did/do you make of his comparison of your work with Macintyre's? and his assessment of your work more broadly? ('he is not a latitudinarian and does not capitulate to the post-Christian consensus.')