tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14418636.post413049076245533325..comments2023-11-03T08:45:55.121+00:00Comments on Stephen's Liberal Journal: Minister of Low Culture in His Own WordsStephen Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027718551675624433noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14418636.post-8975716301483845512009-02-25T00:50:00.000+00:002009-02-25T00:50:00.000+00:00The line "Fans of the Book Quiz" suggests over-gen...The line "Fans of the Book Quiz" suggests over-generosity to the show. While I watch each week this is merely to encourage the Beeb to do more programmes about books on the telly (where is the later lamented BBC4 The Book show of yesteryear?). Wark is a quiz presenter of glorious ineptitude. I find her humourless, graceless, and fully equipped to bring out the worst of her contestants. Perhaps Martha Kearney, who seems to genuinely like books or better still A Good Read's Sue Macgregor (or Kate Mosse) or - heaven forfend Sky Arts - Mariella Frostrup would be a better host.<BR/><BR/>Aside from that I have a bit of sympathy for Russell. It's an old book - and if we're to encourage people with experience furth of political life (even if it's journalism) to enter parliament(which is good for parliament) then we have to accept that what is written in a past life does not necessarily represent current views. There's stuff I said in lectures 9 years ago that I would not necessarily agree with now. Opinions change. And I'd be disappointed if articles I'd written or lectures - in a different context and environment - and which I'd given a decade before were used against me now. Sadly, it's this sort of thing that puts me off more actively participating in politics.Scott @ loveandgarbagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16057169237461813713noreply@blogger.com