Intermission

Sorry for the lack of posts. I'm meeting a deadline for writing a short book on the left-wing case for an interventionist foreign policy. Please check back next week, when I expect to have done it and to be resuming the blog.

In the meantime, thanks are due to my brother, Richard, among many others, for voting at the AUT meeting last week to overturn that boycott, and to my friend Norman Geras for, in the felicitous words of Socialist Worker, going "hand in hand with the right to mobilise all possible forces of reaction" on this issue. (For 'reaction' read 'decency' - but you don't need me to translate.) It is a minimal achievement, but a necessary one.