You are cordially invited to the launch of
How the Future Worked
by Alexander Boot
an anecdotal account of Russia based on the author’s
not altogether happy memories of it
Published by Bretwalda Books
Wednesday, 25th September
at Daunt Books, 158-164 Fulham Road, London SW10 9PR
6.30 to 8.30 pm
RSVP
email: sonata@btinternet.com
telephone: 020 7736 3286
This generous invitation is open to all interested Coffee House Wallers. Do make sure that you drop an RSVP to the address indicated.
I’ll certainly be there.
Regrettably my visa for London expired and I’ve been unable to prevail upon the UKBA to renew it.
Well it’s probably a bit far for you to come.
If I can raise some money I wonder if there would be interest in a tour of London and the regions by Mr. Boot and Theodore Dalrymple? Staging ‘An Evening with..’.
That would be interesting, though I suspect probably not economical unless at least one really big name participated, with a token lefty.
Anyway, feel free to pass on my coffee and muffin to any mittened, needy Wallster begging outside the broadcast studio.
Thanks for the coffee and muffin, Noa.
Alex Boot’s ‘recent blog post’ listings have developed the hiccoughs. Perhaps he’s preoccupied and somewhat nervous in anticipation of meeting a bevy of Wallsters descending on him in Fulham like Chelsea Supporters, led by Andy Car Park – who drew attention to his blog way back when.
http://alexanderboot.com/
I would have been be more inclined to make the journey to SW10 , had the publisher of his book “How the West was Lost” taken the trouble to reply to my email, after Alexander had suggested to me I contact said publisher to obtain a copy at less than circa £58 – which was the average price quoted by Amazon at that time.
I eventually borrowed a copy from my local library for £4.50 after a struggle: their fee for obtaining it from Baltimore or some such backwater in Obamaland.
Interesting tome; but I enjoy his blog-posts more, as they are replete with mordant humour. He’s a better piss-taker than preacher, imho.
Btw – did anybody catch Simon ‘The Twitch’ Schama last night, doing a posh version of ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ dressed up as he History of the Jews’? I have a feeling that it was designed to sanitise the Millibrat’s antecedents as a corollary to the current Commie Conference at Brighton.
His carefully selective hagiography of the Hollywood communist moles – a complete whitewash – did nothing to help the plight of the World’s Jewry, imho.
I say that as a fervent support er of Israel and as one who recognises the beneficial contribution of Jews worldwide, who have integrated into and ameliorated so much to Western culture and civilisation. But Schama’s failure to nail the contribution of Marx and Engels to the savagery of Communism from the Russian Revolution onwards; the Hollywood propaganda that fostered Gramsci’s Long March and the villainous contribution of the Kosher Nostra associates of Cosa Nostra, who acted as book-keepers and money launderers for the Mob across the USA, was remiss.
No tribe is without its villains, but to eradicate their role in the annals of infamy is a mistake that undermines any positive message.
Warts ‘n’ all, Simon, if you want to be taken seriously. You didn’t pull your punches when you were delineating British History, ad nauseam, over the past decades. And your main contribution to the ‘world’s poor and downtrodden’, I think we can safely assume, is to make sure that you don’t become one of ’em, courtesy of the BBC licence fee payer..