tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post653528473669867339..comments2024-03-29T05:13:18.992+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: Seventeen Year Olds - The Guardian Guide...Labanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-7933372579768720752007-03-01T09:02:00.000+00:002007-03-01T09:02:00.000+00:00Some nerdy responses to J.EnochHe was actually 24 ...Some nerdy responses to J.Enoch<BR/><BR/>He was actually 24 not 25 when he became professor of Greek and he wrote the famous Lexicon of Herodutus at 17.<BR/><BR/>He was the youngest Brigadier even though he joined the army on day 1 of the war as a private. His ambition in life from the age of 12 was to die in the war he knew was coming. Trouble is he was far too intelligent to be allowed near the front line much as he tried (he was also a hopeless shot and worse driver)<BR/><BR/>He actually spoke 13 languages not 7 and learnt the last at 76.<BR/><BR/>He never tried to get India back. After it was lost he gave up on the Empire completely. He was in India for the last year of the war and he wrote a blue print for its future as an industrialised nation. He had ambitions to become the governor.<BR/><BR/>Contrary to popular belief he never railed against immigration as such and when in office encouraged it. His problem was lack of policy (still none) planning or forethought.<BR/><BR/>Two best political friends - Tony Benn and Michael Foot would you believe.<BR/><BR/>Finally, his name is Jack, he switched to J.Enoch before publishing the Lexicon when he found another Greek author called Jack Powell. He was many things, including a Poet but if you want a 'greatest' he was probably the greatest Greek scholar ever.liketheromanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17601771403271039584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-84492096122176189822007-02-06T10:46:00.000+00:002007-02-06T10:46:00.000+00:00Now Shaft would be playing it cool, but me, well, ...Now Shaft would be playing it cool, but <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw">me</a>, well, flustered would be the word.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-73859727671104523762007-02-06T10:00:00.000+00:002007-02-06T10:00:00.000+00:00Blognor,
That's made my day, it's just a pity tha...Blognor,<br /><br />That's made my day, it's just a pity that I'm a bit flat-chested.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-28097113562677948902007-02-06T08:52:00.000+00:002007-02-06T08:52:00.000+00:00For sure.
And it makes him quite interesting but...For sure. <br /><br />And it makes him quite interesting but I guess most people only know of the headline stuff. His monetary ideas when he was at/resigning from the treasury during the Macmillan government predated the orthodoxy by 30 years, his views on the union - against the then situation where Northern Ireland had its own government and Prime Minister - certainly have present day resonance, and he spoke something like 7 languages including Greek, Latin, Urdu and Hebrew. But then, even around 1950 he was pestering an exhasperated Churchill with schemes on how to get India back!<br /><br />I'm not a fan, just someone who's interested in the period and who's realised that there was more to him than you'd ever learn at school or through the mainstream.<br /><br />Incidently, your image, well Pam Grier's - all big gun and big breasts - has long been my mobile phone wallpaper.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-26297469239622095522007-02-05T22:45:00.000+00:002007-02-05T22:45:00.000+00:00Enoch Powell was also the youngest brigadier in th...Enoch Powell was also the youngest brigadier in the British Army. My views on Mr Powell are somewhat ambiguous because of my cultural origins, but he was an undoubtedly brilliant and unique individual.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-74622076698755607992007-02-04T20:37:00.000+00:002007-02-04T20:37:00.000+00:00Wasn't Enoch Powell made professor of Greek aged 2...<i>Wasn't Enoch Powell made professor of Greek aged 25? Impressive if somewhat nerdy.</i><br /><br />It was Sydney University though and he did have to teach Gough Whitlam....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-4971816760827774872007-02-04T18:07:00.000+00:002007-02-04T18:07:00.000+00:00it was either this or the Young Conservatives. And...<I>it was either this or the Young Conservatives. And, well, I'm not very good ping pong so here I am.</i><br /><br />Wasn't Enoch Powell made professor of Greek aged 25? Impressive if somewhat nerdy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-57153873928303097682007-02-04T17:48:00.000+00:002007-02-04T17:48:00.000+00:00There's a case for a club for 16-20-year-olds, but...<i>There's a case for a club for 16-20-year-olds, but not those aged up to 25.</I><br /><br />Getting like the Young Conservatives - they'll be pairing off and having ante-anatal classes nextAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-56164283688097221022007-02-04T17:27:00.000+00:002007-02-04T17:27:00.000+00:00...and the same girl may not be given Calpol witho......and the same girl may not be given Calpol without clear parental consent either.Bill Haydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08357811679771159469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-15815398614602730992007-02-04T16:57:00.000+00:002007-02-04T16:57:00.000+00:00Another glaring contradiction:
a girl under the a...Another glaring contradiction:<br /><br />a girl under the age of consent may procure an abortion without medical practioners informing her parents. But if the same girl fails to attend school her parents will be held responsible for her non-attendance and charged accordingly to the letter of the law.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-75128467742023588622007-02-04T13:44:00.000+00:002007-02-04T13:44:00.000+00:00I discovered last month that vandals are 'boys' at...I discovered last month that vandals are 'boys' at the age of 21.<br /><br />fountain.blogspot.com/2007/01/boys-to-men.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com