{"id":6096,"date":"2014-11-05T08:43:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T08:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6096"},"modified":"2014-11-05T08:43:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T08:43:22","slug":"two-more-reasons-not-to-be-at-ecer-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/11\/05\/two-more-reasons-not-to-be-at-ecer-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more reasons not to be at ECER 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Any residual, thoughts I had that I might yet attend ECER 2015 in Budapest have been completely scuppered by two new bit of info.<\/p>\n

The first is the knowledge that Michael W Apple is a keynote speaker. \u00a0Listening to the great communicator once in a lifetime is more than enough, and I heard him first in Beijing a while back, where the great helmsman brought the greetings of the Apple family to the whole Chinese people. \u00a0This was followed by such an outpouring of cant that I walked out and left him to the adoration of his\u00a0many Australian groupies in the audience. \u00a0Wiser folk never went in the first place, I later learned. \u00a0Oddly, the Chinese seem to love him, though, if he were a citizen, and bad-mouthed their state as much as he does the\u00a0USA, they might have locked him up a long while back, and misplaced\u00a0the key. \u00a0It is only my inner liberal which prevents my saying: \"And a good thing too\". \u00a0I doubt that there are enough sick bags in Hungary to cope with another of his orations. Best take one with you just in case.<\/p>\n

The second reason is the increasingly\u00a0illiberal government\u00a0that is now riding roughshod over Hungarian<\/a> democratic life, dismantling the checks and balances to its power along the way. \u00a0The Americans are\u00a0concerned enough to take action, and even EU\u00a0panjandrums have woken up to it \u2013 though taking action is, of course, a step too far for them.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it seems to me that this is no time to boost the government's tax coffers,\u00a0so I'm staying at home to\u00a0read some Isaiah Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Any residual, thoughts I had that I might yet attend ECER 2015 in Budapest have been completely scuppered by two new bit of info. The first is the knowledge that Michael W Apple is a keynote speaker. \u00a0Listening to the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}