Sunday, July 02, 2006

It's almost as if she chose her answers deliberately...

...to annoy me. Susan Hill, this week's Normblog profile and a friend of Norman Geras's, is perhaps not quite on the same level as a few previous profilees, such as Andrew Ian Dodge, Andrew Bolt and Michelle Malkin, but she sure says some silly things:

Who are your intellectual heroes? > Keir Hardie and Christopher Hitchens.

If you could effect one major policy change in the governing of your country, what would it be? > Abolish private education so that the most motivated and powerful parents and the brightest children and the best teachers would be forced to enter the comprehensive system and improve it out of all recognition. And I speak as one who was privately educated and sent her daughters to private schools. But I would not have done if the local state system had been as good as the private sector in which they were so well educated.

If you could choose anyone, from any walk of life, to be Prime Minister, who would you choose? > The Prince of Wales.

Which English Premiership football team do you support? > Manchester United.