We have significant figures who argue for various things that should be done. The things are more important than the people who advocate them. But it is hard to hold onto thoughts. Concrete is more memorable than abstract. So I want to identify the things that we should do with those who, it seems to me, are arguing for them the hardest. Saying what should be done is a collective activity, and I see many people contributing to it. But we should all row together, as in a college eight.
A college eight is a boat rowed by eight men, or eight women, as in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. In this piece I am playing cox: trying to suggest that everyone row in time. I have to put this in my own words, so I apologise to any of the rowers, should they read this. You can check their own words, as they exist in book form, or, more usually, now, in videos to be found on YouTube. I think it is regrettable, to some extent, that in our age speech is favoured over the written word, but perhaps speech does enable truth to be told, because untruth when vocalised sounds so hollow, whereas the written word, unless used very well, conceals much sin. Anyhow, here are the eight....<<<Read More>>>....