GBH
- Historian by education.
- Lawyer by profession.
- Sceptic by nature.
Education edit
Interests edit
Early Modern England, the mechanics of trade & literature, family & social structure, law & society, unpopular English poets, obscure music, people on the margins of society, (travellers, criminals and the mentally ill), communication, misunderstandings, ignorance.
Mantras edit
to keep the heart still sensitive as air will be our part, always to think, and always to indite of a good matter, while the black birds cry.
I believe that we must become in proportion as we would develop out wealth, something more than better financiers, accountants, and administrators. The mere pursuit of individuals ends is harmful to the ends and the peace of the whole, to the rhythms of its work and pleasures, and hence in the end to the individual.
It is not a question of emancipating truth from every system of power - which would be a chimera, because truth is already itself power - but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony within which it operates at the present time.
I do not think so little of our jurisprudence as to suppose that its principles are so remote from the ordinary needs of civilised society and the ordinary claims which it makes upon its members as to deny a legal remedy where there is so obviously a social wrong.
The world is supported by four things only; the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valour of the wise.
Moslem Proverb
Most men are not wicked . . . they are sleepwalkers, not evildoers.
I am not trying to defend the motives of these groups; what I attack is the senseless barbarism of ours society's response.
Morality cannot be legislated, but behaviour can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
Everyone has his reasons