Friday 7 January 2011

Bagehot on Cricket and British Culture

I wish I'd been in Melbourne or Sydney!
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2 comments:

  1. sibadd8 January 2011 at 12:16

    I can imagine few better placed than you - by age and career - to pick up on the shifts in culture that are bound to occur simply as we grow older, but also because you've been professionally a conveyor of that culture. This is why you've picked up on Bagehot - is it one of your pseudonyms? I liked the article on the contrast between how the Royal family enjoy their country (especially the Highlands. Balmoral? dreich glens? midges? wet heather? sheepy tweeds and bleached oil cloth?) compared to a new and more demotic aristocracy. The world's losing touch with us Jim.

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  2. Jim8 January 2011 at 13:18

    Alas, no, but a writer and commentator from The Economist whose articles and postings I try to read.
    As to picking up on shifts in culture, it depends how far you are from the centre of things and for how long. After five years in Ethiopia in the early 1970s, I found I became completely out of touch with - for instance-styles of humour and trends in feminist thought. On my return to the UK, it didn't take long to catch up!

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