Roy Jenkins, Europe and the Civilised Society - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

[@badmattam]

Hugely enjoyable lectures by Professor Bogdanor. Thanks for sharing.

[@ian_b]

Jenkins's denunciation of those attacking him should be shown to every militant Remainer in the current Brexit crisis.

[@WildBillCox13]

Wonderfully entertaining as always, Professor Bogdanor. Thanks for posting, Gresham! A point worth making, given the tenor of the good Professor's account: My mother was also a professional Bridge Player, wrote two bestselling books on the topic, had a very long running (over 25 years) Public Television show ("Bridge With Jean Cox") and retired a millionaire as a result. She was also highly educated, taught (American) English at a prestigious high school, and inculcated in her children a fine appreciation for the language and for scholastic, moral, and ethical, attainment in ourselves and others. I somehow managed to throw off that wonderful conditioning and have since become a poet, song writer, rock musician, Science Fiction and Fantasy writer, and, in general, a determined enemy of Scientific and Academic intransigence. I do wish, sometimes, that I had more closely followed her lead.

[@briandelaney9710]

Woy!!

[@paulgavin3603]

Jenkins was a fine historian and biographer. A terrible politician

[@paulgavin3603]

Jenkins was a competent historian and biographer, but a pompous oaf in real life.

[@johnbull9195]

His liberal legislation is certainly not to his credit, the dismantling of Britain's social and sexual laws, which he was largely responsible for, proved to be the ruination of a civilised society not the creation of one.

[@CK-cz6ml]

Oh rubbish.