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Associate Professor, SWPS University. Welsh by birth. English by upbringing. Irish by design. Polish by choice. I am a lineman for the county.
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And drugs.
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It’s just so low-stakes, though. There is power in rockets.
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10/10 would eat
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Optimistic of you to put a time limit on it
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Sounds like JK Rowling was forced to write an Italian kid into Harry Potter
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Precisely. His smug counter to any criticism for printing racism has always been “our readers appreciate it”. Quite apart from the question of why he wants to be appreciated for printing racism, the consequences are, as you say, that racists - writer and reader alike - feel validated.
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I sometimes wonder whether these people think hot air balloons are single-use devices
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“I find it difficult to believe, rational conservative that I am, that this wallet inspector is given to the same frankly asocial behaviour of the previous three.”
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Fantastic. I was half expecting Stijn to break into a sax solo.
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Pitch something about the Death of Liberalism and you might get a “John Gray is on holiday” slot.
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We’re a long way from Sejmflix.
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The post it’s a follow-up to suggests that contempt for the little folk and their opinions is rather his thing.
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The unforced force of the better open mic performance
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from the start - or even from the moment of Goodwin’s turn towards a more Brexit-sympathetic position - is for the birds.
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views and rhetoric became more radical, the focus shifted to condemnation of his positions and his dishonest mischaracterisation of others’ positions. Goodwin’s radicalisation was a process, as was the evolving response to it from people like Rob. The idea that this could all have been foreseen
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started to play fast and loose with data to support the kind of positions he (Rob) otherwise acknowledged it was legitimate for Goodwin to hold. Indeed, much of the initial criticism of and disquiet about Goodwin was occasioned by his cavalier use of methods he was inadequately trained in. As his
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Yes, early Goodwin had some vaguely conservative views (or so it seemed to me on the one occasion I met him), which gradually evolved in the direction of Brexit-sympathising right, and then rapidly in the direction of populism and nativism. Rob became more critical of Goodwin around the time he