{"id":29787,"date":"2015-07-20T06:57:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T05:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=29787"},"modified":"2015-07-20T06:57:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T05:57:37","slug":"beware-the-most-irritating-man-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/07\/20\/beware-the-most-irritating-man-in-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the most irritating man in the room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FT has a review by Giles Wilkes of Yanis Varoufakis' new book, The Global Minotaur, this morning. It is headed:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/07\/20\/beware-the-most-irritating-man-in-the-room\/screen-shot-2015-07-20-at-06-51-09\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29788\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29788 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-06.51.09-550x91.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-07-20 at 06.51.09\" width=\"550\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-06.51.09-550x91.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-06.51.09-300x49.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-06.51.09-800x132.png 800w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-06.51.09-200x33.png 200w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-06.51.09.png 1032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giles Wilkes would be wise to<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/George_Bernard_Shaw\" target=\"_blank\"> recall the advice of George Bernard Shaw<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Varoufakis may irritate for a reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT has a review by Giles Wilkes of Yanis Varoufakis&#8217; new book, The Global Minotaur, this morning. It is headed: Giles Wilkes would be<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/07\/20\/beware-the-most-irritating-man-in-the-room\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}