I have read Micheal Gove's speech on the future of government, delivered last night as the Ditchley Lecture.
The speech was all about supposedly radicalising government, adding to the diversity of its delivery and the broadness of its thinking. In the context I think this picture from the Ditchley web site interesting:
That's an ageing, very large white and be-suited audience. And this is the audience he chose to speak to radicalism and supposed diversity to? Who is he kidding?
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Perhaps this sort of audience has the furthest to travel in terms of diversity and innovation?
Maybe
In fairness to Ditchley, Richard, whom I have no connection with, that photo is a stock picture from their website and not a picture of the audience at Gove’s lecture.
But they felt it representative…..
Who on earth is that boy in that blue shirt at the end of the row? What parent would drag their child along to a talk like that?
Are you kidding?
The Neo-libs like to start you off young you know. Indoctrination is not just for Marxists or Trots!
“That’s an ageing, very large white and be-suited audience. ”
So? You would fit into that category.
And it is of course revealing of your own prejudices that despite not knowing these people, you assume that they aren’t people you should speak to about radicalising government. You jump to a conclusion about who they are based on what they look like.
I thought you were against prejudice, yet here you are exhibiting it.
Be-suited for such an event?
Pull the other one….
And yes, I presume that if you were talking about opening up your audience you might just want to do that
If you can’t see that, the problem is all yours
Is it not all part of the plan to model ourselves on (a Trump like) USA? Everything seems to point that way.
It does
A really extraordinary blogpost. Gove’s lecture, which you can read in full on the New Statesman’s website, but only if you are aging, white and bearded, was the most radical and thoughtful political speech I have read in ages. Yet your only comment ostensibly about it is in fact a snear about a file picture that may or may not be an audience at another talk given at some time in the past at Ditchley, which has precisely nothing to do with Gove’s excellent lecture. You make an utter fool of yourself by demonstrating such idiotic bigotry. You and I are both aging and white and there is nothing either of us can do about it. It is also of zero consequence, and zero relevance to Gove’s lecture. I had never heard of you until I found this website and I shall be careful to avoid you in the future. The fact that you are an academic shows the parlous state of the academy today, rammed with thoughtless, stupid bigots like you.
It was not the only comment I made: you clearly did not read much
Nor, apparently, could you work out the relevance of the comment
Please feel free not to call again