[lit-ideas] Re: amid miserable thoughts of Enoch Powell, some good news

  • From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:51:46 +0000 (GMT)

(*Illegal* immigrants!! -- their grandfather and father came here using forged 
papers, fleeing as the German Army moved through Belgium. There's more at the 
wikipedia entry on Ralph)

yes that is an interesting difference. I always thought of Ralph (he taught me) 
as Belgian. This is their mother's story

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/7730052/The-miraculous-escape-of-Marion-Miliband.html


> Why do you prefer Ed to David?  Just curiosity; I've
> never heard either, or even read anything they wrote or
> said.

David's too identified with Blairite New Labour (which Ed has just pronounced 
dead), Ed was a Brownite who did though manage to talk to the Blair camp.  
(They called him "the emissary from planet David, we now know, was informed 
about -- I hesitate to say "approved" -- torture.  Ed is not associated with 
the Iraq War.

David's the one the Tories feared (good Foreign Secretary, loved by Hillary 
Clinton), Ed is also centre-Left really but, well, more Left than David! And I 
get a better vibe from Ed, for what that's worth.

I should say I know a lot more about David, Ed's decision to run for leader was 
unexpected, to put it mildly.



Judy Evans, Cardiff. 




--- On Sun, 26/9/10, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: amid miserable thoughts of Enoch Powell, some good 
> news
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, 26 September, 2010, 20:19
> I looked on Wikipedia to remind
> myself which brother was which.  The answer is that
> David is the son of "Jewish" immigrants, and Ed is the son
> of "Polish Jewish" immigrants!  The difference is how
> each writer (or possibly group of writers) handled the fact
> that the brothers' father was born in Belgium, to Polish
> parents.
> 
> Why do you prefer Ed to David?  Just curiosity; I've
> never heard either, or even read anything they wrote or
> said.
> 
> David Ritchie,
> Portland, Oregon
> 
>



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