Not having a blog of my own, and in the absence of a comments facility at normblog, I would like to point out that Prof Geras, as well as owning a pair of Ralph Lauren shorts, has also appeared in the opening paragraph of a feature in last month's Vogue:
A couple of years ago, when I was looking online for arguments for and against the Iraq war, I came across my first blog, the magisterial site of Professor Norman Geras, who I'm sure will be surprised to find himself mentioned in Vogue. But it is in the nature of the blogosphere that at any given moment you are only a click or two away from a whole universe of disparate worlds. Within a few minutes of reading about liberal interventionism, the Kurdish question and genocide in Darfur, I was at the site of Manolo. Not Manolo Blahnik, but his namesake, an anonymous New Yorker who knows everything about [the] shoes.At this rate Norm will soon be dating Kate Moss and writing a weekly column in Grazia. (Linda Grant)