Comments on: The Dream of Rome http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/05/the-dream-of-rome/ Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:46:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: charlotte http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/05/the-dream-of-rome/comment-page-4/#comment-8402 charlotte Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:21:32 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=243#comment-8402 I have not kept up with these Boris blogs or books. However it sounds as if Boris is trying to learn from Rome and apply this to multi-cultural Britain. Generally as far as I am aware multi-racialisms benifits include increased security and greater wealth due to the amount of united people and the extent of the trading block. However, one of the most fundamental keys to prosperity is honesty and a civil society. Corrupt countries never sustain wealth. It may be that a country benifits from a very tiny proportion of dishonesty but this is the exception rather than the rule. Given that multi-culturalism brings together people from places where varied levels of curruption are the norm will multi-culturalism lead to greater corruption and diminished prosperity over time? Or will people become acculturated to a more restrained fashion of living (and if so how). Finally, will a more corrupt society outweigh the benifits to prosperity of a larger trading block? I have not kept up with these Boris blogs or books.
However it sounds as if Boris is trying to learn from Rome and apply this to multi-cultural Britain.

Generally as far as I am aware multi-racialisms benifits include increased security and greater wealth due to the amount of united people and the extent of the trading block.

However, one of the most fundamental keys to prosperity is honesty and a civil society. Corrupt countries never sustain wealth. It may be that a country benifits from a very tiny proportion of dishonesty but this is the exception rather than the rule.

Given that multi-culturalism brings together people from places where varied levels of curruption are the norm will multi-culturalism lead to greater corruption and diminished prosperity over time? Or will people become acculturated to a more restrained fashion of living (and if so how).
Finally, will a more corrupt society outweigh the benifits to prosperity of a larger trading block?

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]]> By: Liz Tirard http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/05/the-dream-of-rome/comment-page-4/#comment-8401 Liz Tirard Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:12:15 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=243#comment-8401 Have just purchased and read my copy from cover to cover - why, other than Piers Plowman, were the history books of my youth so arid and uninspiring? Yours is a joy to read, irreverent, full of palatable facts and utterly absorbing. Strangely enough I now feel slightly better disposed towards the European vision - but not the present set up.... Have just purchased and read my copy from cover to cover – why, other than Piers Plowman, were the history books of my youth so arid and uninspiring? Yours is a joy to read, irreverent, full of palatable facts and utterly absorbing. Strangely enough I now feel slightly better disposed towards the European vision – but not the present set up….

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]]> By: Elisabeth Ravi http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/05/the-dream-of-rome/comment-page-4/#comment-8400 Elisabeth Ravi Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:21:27 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=243#comment-8400 I watched both episodes of The Dream of Rome on BBC TV and thought Boris was magnificent in the presentation of his story. Craig Brown's comments on his Review page in The Mail on Sunday (Feb 5 - Hail Boris!) were a joy to read, and I agree with his enthusiasm when he says that "Boris writes like an excited schoolboy - but that's what makes Johnson's history of Rome so spiffing...". This was a hugely enjoyable history lesson - well done Boris. I watched both episodes of The Dream of Rome on BBC TV and thought Boris was magnificent in the presentation of his story. Craig Brown’s comments on his Review page in The Mail on Sunday (Feb 5 – Hail Boris!) were a joy to read, and I agree with his enthusiasm when he says that “Boris writes like an excited schoolboy – but that’s what makes Johnson’s history of Rome so spiffing…”. This was a hugely enjoyable history lesson – well done Boris.

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]]> By: idlex http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/05/the-dream-of-rome/comment-page-4/#comment-8399 idlex Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:13:39 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=243#comment-8399 It'll get deleted - when Melissa comes back. It’ll get deleted – when Melissa comes back.

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]]> By: raincoaster http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/05/the-dream-of-rome/comment-page-4/#comment-8398 raincoaster Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:06:05 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=243#comment-8398 I'm all for public exposure, but if you can't even get your facts straight and insist on being a troll and posting them everywhere, you should get smacked with a rolled-up newspaper...or an IP tracer. Whichever. I’m all for public exposure, but if you can’t even get your facts straight and insist on being a troll and posting them everywhere, you should get smacked with a rolled-up newspaper…or an IP tracer. Whichever.

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]]> By: Macarnie http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/05/the-dream-of-rome/comment-page-4/#comment-8397 Macarnie Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:05:45 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=243#comment-8397 The Tom80, has already been reported to the temporary webmaster, who is , as it happens a whizz with the programming. The Tom80, has already been reported to the temporary webmaster, who is , as it happens a whizz with the programming.

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]]> By: raincoaster http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/05/the-dream-of-rome/comment-page-4/#comment-8396 raincoaster Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:47:59 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=243#comment-8396 Tom8o, without going into details your story as reported is false. It is also libelous (working with lawyers has done so much for my naturally confrontational nature). So please stop boring us here by re-posting it under different names every three days. If you can't even get the story right, you should certainly stop repeating it. And don't you know that IPs can be traced? If your story were factual, wouldn't you be a little more worried than you appear to be? Tom8o, without going into details your story as reported is false. It is also libelous (working with lawyers has done so much for my naturally confrontational nature). So please stop boring us here by re-posting it under different names every three days. If you can’t even get the story right, you should certainly stop repeating it. And don’t you know that IPs can be traced?

If your story were factual, wouldn’t you be a little more worried than you appear to be?

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]]> By: Mumbler http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/05/the-dream-of-rome/comment-page-4/#comment-8395 Mumbler Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:04:24 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=243#comment-8395 Tomato367, Were you squashed in childhood -- to go with the family beef and that big chip you have? Mumsie-wumsie & Pops couldn't afford the fees then? Tomato367,

Were you squashed in childhood — to go with the family beef and that big chip you have?

Mumsie-wumsie & Pops couldn’t afford the fees then?

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]]> By: tomato367 http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/05/the-dream-of-rome/comment-page-4/#comment-8394 tomato367 Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:34:54 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=243#comment-8394 Hang on, just to clarify that stuff earlier in the thread, as far as I know, convicted fraudster and fellow Etonian Darius Guppy asked Boris Johnson to supply the address of a journalist investigating Darius as he wished to either beat him up or have him beaten up. The story continues that Boris was unable to find the address and he DID NOT SUPPLY IT; nonetheless a rather unsavoury incident that arguably reflects on the way some public-schoolboys operate. Hang on, just to clarify that stuff earlier in the thread, as far as I know, convicted fraudster and fellow Etonian Darius Guppy asked Boris Johnson to supply the address of a journalist investigating Darius as he wished to either beat him up or have him beaten up. The story continues that Boris was unable to find the address and he DID NOT SUPPLY IT; nonetheless a rather unsavoury incident that arguably reflects on the way some public-schoolboys operate.

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]]> By: Jack Ramsey http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/02/05/the-dream-of-rome/comment-page-4/#comment-8393 Jack Ramsey Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:49:21 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=243#comment-8393 fiddlesticks Happy Monday! As it was done in the vain but noble attempt to educate me I shall withdraw the fatwah and return the books to Yussuf. fiddlesticks

Happy Monday!

As it was done in the vain but noble attempt to educate me I shall withdraw the fatwah and return the books to Yussuf.

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