I came by this meme via Harriet, who got it off Simon. It involves sampling your blog over the last year by giving the first lines for each month. Here goes...
January: Round about now, end of old year/beginning of new, we are bombarded with lists of what people have read and loved, and of what they're looking forward to reading in the coming year.
February: When the Occupy movement got going last year, it was possible simultaneously to support its central concerns - about the extent of economic inequality and the way the financial crisis is affecting lower-income groups - and to retain a certain scepticism towards the more extreme claims being made for it...
March: Provided, that is, that the killing is painless.
April: The article by Eliane Glaser here raises the question of whether the concept of false consciousness is a useful one.
May: Alex Preston is the author of This Bleeding City and The Revelations.
June: James Bloodworth was born in Bridgwater, Somerset, in 1982 and went to school at the Kings of Wessex in Cheddar.
July: Following up on the view of Ezra Klein's that I quoted in this post, I now draw your attention to a column in the New York Times by Pamela S. Karlan, professor of public interest law at Stanford University:
August: Hope figures in the thinking of Primo Levi both as a direct subject of reflection and, more obliquely, as implicit in cognate themes pointing to the persistence of humane impulses in conditions of the most terrible adversity.
September: The Observer today reports that Archbishop Desmond Tutu 'has called for Tony Blair and George Bush to be hauled before the international criminal court in The Hague'.
October: Eric Hobsbawm has died at the age of 95.
November: Here's Jonathan Chait making the case for Obama:
December: Responding to my post about 'Yid' chants, a longtime reader and Spurs fan has written with the observations below.
Is that a representative sample? I don't think so.