Old Hobby bollox: Wrong then, wrong now

'I think it's better if we don't post - he's clearly a misogynist anyway.'
'Well yes.'
'And, you know, if someone's going to...keep farting in the room...'
'Well yes.'



Anyway,


"According to the historian Robert Conquest, Hobsbawm was asked by Michael
Ignatieff in a BBC interview in 1994: 'What (your view) comes down to is
saying that had the radiant tomorrow actually been created, the loss of 15,
20 million people might have been justified?' He replied: 'Yes.'"

http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2004/07/it_takes_an_int.html

ROBBIE

Ps: *that's* 'farting in the room' is it?