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JOHN'S JOURNAL: Three, going on four months later...
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John Budd's weblog, for reflections on life and its bizarre nature. A Miscellany of Musings. View my complete profile. Sunday, March 25, 2007. Three, going on four months later. Reading some of my last posts provides an insight into how fast one's life can change. Over the last three months things seem to have fallen into place. Cambridge. Have given me an offer - much to my delight - which I have accepted as my "firm", along with Bristol, Warwick. My "insurance" - and Exeter. Although I flinched when fi...
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JOHN'S JOURNAL: The Apprentice: reflections at week 10
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John Budd's weblog, for reflections on life and its bizarre nature. A Miscellany of Musings. View my complete profile. Thursday, May 31, 2007. The Apprentice: reflections at week 10. It was my original intention to post a weekly analysis of The Apprentice. As always, however, events and sheer laziness conspired otherwise. So, here we are at week 10: what do I think so far? Initially it appeared the same as at the start of the second series: all the contestants (surely applicants? Who do I think will win?
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JOHN'S JOURNAL: Thoughts on History
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John Budd's weblog, for reflections on life and its bizarre nature. A Miscellany of Musings. View my complete profile. Thursday, September 10, 2009. Sometimes a revealing insight can spring from the least expected of places. I say this as I was recently watching the brilliant Peep Show. When an encounter between Mark and Jeremy struck me as reminiscent of the confusion which sometimes surrounds History. Any answer is right.’ What they fail to understand is the past’s ambiguity, its comple...Is it enough ...
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JOHN'S JOURNAL: Carry on Clio
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John Budd's weblog, for reflections on life and its bizarre nature. A Miscellany of Musings. View my complete profile. Tuesday, September 02, 2008. How could you possibly class issues like these as unworthy of examination? Ignorant speculation such as this is not just deeply insulting, it's dangerous. Just look up the Irvine libel trial back in 2000 (which reminds us that such opinions can be held by so-called historians) or Richard J. Evans' In Defence of History. Which shows the possibility of true his...
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JOHN'S JOURNAL: Tree time
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John Budd's weblog, for reflections on life and its bizarre nature. A Miscellany of Musings. View my complete profile. Wednesday, December 20, 2006. We boost up this Christian festival (although it has undoubtedly now been appropriated for a secularised society) as the paragon of family togetherness, culinary excellence (just look at the Radio Times. And bear witness to the shear number of cookery programmes) and unqualified giving. Yet what is the reality? This comment has been removed by the author.
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JOHN'S JOURNAL: Salley Vickers’ Review: A Review
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John Budd's weblog, for reflections on life and its bizarre nature. A Miscellany of Musings. View my complete profile. Monday, September 03, 2007. Salley Vickers’ Review: A Review. So-called book review in The Times. I felt sufficiently incensed to pen this response:. Dawkins is merely audacious enough to suggest that we should base “belief” on strong foundations: evidence. This is obviously too unpoetic for Vickers, who “used to ask students, is Hamlet real? Vickers asks several questions rhetorically, ...
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JOHN'S JOURNAL: On Religion
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John Budd's weblog, for reflections on life and its bizarre nature. A Miscellany of Musings. View my complete profile. Wednesday, September 12, 2007. Revisiting Salley Vickers' review on The Times. Not very cleverly used, of course. Here's another one that makes just as much sense: If someone says "Guns are dangerous" just substitute 'Biscuits' for 'guns'. Then you can say, 'Oh, that's like saying 'Biscuits are dangerous! I also listened to a Today. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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I value your opinion - But mine is better: November 2005
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I value your opinion - But mine is better. Sunday, November 13, 2005. 20 Really Isn't plenty. So the latest thing the news has taken and ran with is the speed limit in England, with the oh-so spectacular rhyme twenty is plenty. Twenty really isn't plenty. I can take a shit faster than twenty pitiful miles per hour. And they have brainwashed some twatty looking kids into looking angered and disgusted at the way that inconsiderate drivers drive at 30, and even THIRTY-FIVE! Its always about the car isn't it?
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I value your opinion - But mine is better: 20 Really Isn't plenty
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I value your opinion - But mine is better. Sunday, November 13, 2005. 20 Really Isn't plenty. So the latest thing the news has taken and ran with is the speed limit in England, with the oh-so spectacular rhyme twenty is plenty. Twenty really isn't plenty. I can take a shit faster than twenty pitiful miles per hour. And they have brainwashed some twatty looking kids into looking angered and disgusted at the way that inconsiderate drivers drive at 30, and even THIRTY-FIVE! Its always about the car isn't it?
