Back from wonderful, argumentative Battle Of Ideas. What a lot of very intelligent people were there. Hits me when I read my notes. Good stuff on tolerance (I highly recommend this book) and the soul
High points as always included fantastic concert by Royal College of Music students at the Saturday night reception. Palpable sense of uplift in audience directly afterwards.
And here’s portrait of Simon Baddeley scything, done in payment for my serendipitous bike
