[lbo-talk] Boris Johnson: This lunacy about Latin makes me want to weep with rage

[Joseph Catron]

"Being an even-tempered fellow, and given that we have already put up
with so much nonsense from the Labour Government, I find there are
very few ministerial pronouncements that make me wild with anger ...
But there are times when a minister says something so maddening, so
death-defyingly stupid, that I am glad not to be in the same room in
case I should reach out, grab his tie, and end what is left of my
political career with one almighty head-butt ....

"Ed Balls should remember that some of the greatest socialists of the
past 100 years were classicists, from Denis Healey to Geoffrey de Ste
Croix, the formidable Marxist historian and author of The Class
Struggle in the Ancient Greek World. What would Ste Croix have made of
a government that actively tried to restrict the study of a great and
profitable discipline to the bourgeoisie? He would have denounced it
as an act of class war, and he would have been right."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/7445850/This-lunacy-about-Latin-makes-me-want-to-weep-with-rage.html

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