It'll never catch on...
Since I was there at the time of Norman Stone in his pomp and several other 'characters', I attended a fair number of lectures.
It was just that none of them was directly relevant to the modules I was doing (for those, I could read in great detail in the space of two days what the person who wrote the book was going to take five weeks to say, and their prose was often much more entertaining than their lecturing, since their witty conversation didn't translate to performing in front of an audience of thirty or forty people)...
Stone would've had more than one or two pithy comments to make about the wisdom of intervention in Syria or Iraq, but seems to have been overlooked by the press since he left for Turkey.
Last edited by Archimedes; 30th Sep 2013 at 23:43.