Hi Joe! Some of these questions are very interesting, but I don't understand the lingo of the 8th prompt. I don't have the context for the word "slump" in the question and don't know what it means; is it synonymous with "lack of motivation"? Also, you used and acronym "D.N.F." in your response and I'm unfamiliar.

This was highly entertaining. Nice one Joe. Loved the way you talked about phones. (I don't use mine much either) "in the washing machine" made me laugh out loud. Awesome.

Have you read London Fields? Amis’ high point as a stylist, but the opening page of The Information has some of my favorite sentences of his.

Well said.

I just want to say THANK YOU!!!

Hi Joe, Many thanks for putting the upcoming election into prospective. 😄 Yeah I miss the days when the economist only was £2.50. On the other hand magazines need to have some incentive to survive as well. Hm the mixing of legit criticism of Isra. and anti-sem. is never helpful and only seems to benefit the current local overlord. A hairy topic nevertheless. Enjoy the family celebrations! Cheers

Slashing at Hacks? Yes please! Glad you are toeing the Petersonian line in regard to the demise of Universities 😉❤

Such a refreshing video. Glad that i found your channel.

You have an artistic turn of phrase my man. I'm impressed.

As a Floridian who has lived in the Uk for almost 8 months and experiencing her first summer in England, I laughed at your description of the weather here.

Joe, Spike Milligan was a forerunner of Weird Al Yankovitz.

Glad I found your channel with this tag, definitely enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to watching your content Joe!

I find it interesting that all the responses I've seen so far to the original posters are from people who aren’t tied to their phones!

This is the joy of creating a tag: phenomenal BookTubers like you join in and add verve and insight to every answer. Thank you so much for taking part!

i'm using this to prepare for my literature exam lol, thank you for the video it's really helpful

Amazing! Thank you for using our tag 🤭 Happy to have discovered your channel.

Have you ever come across The Case for Conservatism by Quintin Hogg (perhaps better know to your Grandparents as Lord Hailsham). It was first written in 1947 and is possibly a reaction to the 1945-51 Labour government. It was published by Penguin as a grey-banded world affairs book. Hogg later revised the book under a different title. I like to think that was because everyone answered the original title with "You Mean There Is One?"

I've been following the results of the election of the European Parliament. Alas, a cold chill has gone up my spine and settled there. I'm sorry that Nigel Farrage is running for parliament, but happy that he won't be acting as another lickspittle for Trump. I do always enjoy your videos.

james obrien may be the worst human in the entire country

I'm not sure I agree about young Trump voters being persuaded by Hitchens (or people like Peterson or whatever). So many of these young men are radically anti-smart, resisting anyone who seems to be using (or in their opinion misusing) intellect or serious thought. This anti-intellectualism has long been a major strand in American culture--at least in certain regions of the country (including the one where I grew up). Hitchens couldn't--and didn't even try--to hide his brilliance. But maybe you're right that he could have shifted just a few trumpies, enough to swing an election. And at the very least, I personally would have enjoyed his youtube persona very much (even when I disagreed with him).

books: 1) fire and fury by michael wolff 2) 1984 by george orwell 3) the communist manifesto by karl marx and friedrich engels 4) and yet by christopher hitchens 5) making a success of brexit and reforming the eu by roger bootle 6) how they broke britain by james o brien 7) britain since 1918 by david marquand 8) the way we live now by anthony trollope 9) ten years to save the west by liz truss

12:16 the algorithm - priceless - is it a pilgrimage? - can it be smelled? - does it like fish and chips? Definitely worth watching all your videos for those great utterances. 🙂 Good that you have up swearing 👍 Sometimes it is necessary but not non stop.

Thanks for this Joe. Am finding these chapters particularly powerful and enlightening. I had no idea of the different responses to the Nazi directives by different countries, and as you highlight, it's nice to see a glimmer of hope in the resistance by some amidst the horror.

The book discussion starts at 2:06 Many thanks Joe! Unfortunately the demands of normal life still bog me down to get my vid ready about the book. Maybe tonight I will manage to switch on the camera. 🧐 I think you haven't mentioned 'Eichmann before Jerusalem' from B. Stangneth so far (Ger publication 2011 and Engl. tranlation 2014). Have you looked already into it? It seems to be one of the more recent publications that dispute some of Hannah A's points but also credits her work. There is also a detailed book discussion here available on YT from the H. Arendt Center which got up to chapter 10 I think. There are still a few discussions coming up on most Friday's 6pm UK time. Maybe you want to join one of them. __________________________________ Context and more historic matters I had Hannah A. longer on my list to check out one day. So I jumped on the occasion when you started to discuss this book. To contextualise her position I just finished Ian Kershaw 'Hitl., the Germans, and the Fin. Solution' (2009) and Alex Kay's 'Empire of Destruction' (2021). Both of them also allude to her book. Now I am listening to 'Out of the Darkness' from Frank Trentmann (2023) to help myself letting go of this topic eventually again. Do you delve into this topic sometimes as well? (I saw that you got 'Monte Cassino' and 'Das Boot' recently but I think they won't deal in a more rigorous manner with this topic. They will be partly 'entertaining' at least.) Related to this topic I like that your also reviewed Shirer's 'Rise and Fall of the 3rd R.' (1963) got more popularity through J. Peterson in the last years. For me this book has more issues than Arendt's book but not many discuss them. Richard Evans trilogy about this time period should be given as a more modern follow up to Shirer's book but Jordan P. does not seem to be to interested in contemporary research and let's his followers sit on quite outdated sound bites of this period. Anyway massive topic but a probably to long comment. 🙃 Cheerio!

Great! I subbed as well to support you. I am looking forward to the conversations in the comments there. From my part don't feel obliged to publish too many posts. Better polished and precious than abundant. I didn't know that Substack has a podcast feature as well. (Also didn't know that they have a good bunch of controversies.) I think that a t-shirt with your introductory three part rhymes would marvelous. Cheerio!

Good luck 🤞 Joe 😊 xxxx

Subscribed! I wish you well in this endeavor. Looking forward to reading your reportage, especially on the upcoming UK elections!

I just subscribed (free as I can’t afford to pay)! I also recommended you to my subscribers and followers! :)

Never imagined you as a Jane Austen protagonist before. Good luck with the endevour.

Many thanks Joe. Just for dropping the word 'lugubrious' it was well worth watching it. Uh why do you want to know/engage so much about Trump? 😁 I am more curious if anybody will still know him in 20 years and what is left of his legacy. It looks more like that there underlying economic fundamentals are not going to be altered to give the masses a more sane life to stay away from such pumped up promisers (didn't wanted to use the word demagogue here). Which is kind of sad because the world could be more pleasant to so many more people. (my dreamy 2 pence)

I don’t watch much sport except for cricket which I absolutely love…”curious game” though it definitely is. And having been born in UK but now living in NZ maybe I could find a biography of Ben Stokes for A Summer in Sport. That seems rather appropriate doesn’t it? We are of course edging into winter Down Under so I shall be joining in rather vicariously I suppose.

Great video. I am hoping to get to some of these Summer of Sport titles in the next few months: They Shoot Horses Don't They? - Horace McCoy (Dance marathon) 500-1 - Rob Steen & Alastair McLellan (Cricket) The Damned Utd - David Peace (Football) Semi-Tough - Dan Jenkins (American Football) Polo - Jilly Cooper (Polo)

I’m so glad to see you hold up The Portrait of a Lady. I am currently buddy reading it with another booktuber-wildly for the first time-and loving it. (I recently read The Bostonians and found it fascinating but not a competitor for top James.) Many southerners pronounce “u” as you do: Tyoosday and Dyoook, etc. I still do, even though much of my southern accent has mellowed in all my years away. Other Americans usually make fun of us…

I've recently read Washington Square and The Europeans by Henry James. I really enjoy his writing.

I laughed when you said people seem to read Macbeth in the autumn. It just so happens that after a lovely long walk around a nature reserve this morning, I relaxed with a glass of La Croix and read through Macbeth. However, I am now going to read Dandelion Wine which is considered an essential summer book. I haven't read it since grade school and don't remember any details other than that my younger self liked it.

I read Overreach by Owen Matthews on your recommendation and was very much grateful for it (recommended reading for Ukrainians, Iranians and devilish Tasmanians).

Wonderful thanks Joe. I do think you could have an alternative career as a stand up comedian! I'm also reading The Strange Death of Europe at the moment with an open mind. Dune is indeed wonderful and I'm about to tuck into Trollope's 'Can you Forgive Her? which I have no idea whether or not fits your clement weather themed Summer read criteria.

You are always fun to listen to. Happy Sunday 🫧

Many thanks! 16:47 Sounds like you refer to D. Irving. A rather strange novelist who tries/d to represent himself as a historian. At least his abdominal writings helped Richard Evans partly to write a introduction great trilogy to this whole topic.

Many thanks! Do you know of a similar good collection/book from another writer? I definitely like those writings. Martin Amis brings also up Christopher Hitchens in one of his works. I got introduced to him through his discussion about faith/religion. What do you make of him (and his brother Peter)? 14:03 'Being young ...'- well said 😁 Cheers!

Still with you Joe - thanks. Found these two chapters particularly revealing. I agree with what you say about the wider context, as anti- semitism has existed forever it seems, but it reached a pitch in Nazi Germany because of what was basically permission from those in charge. As for Arendt’s digressive style, I don’t mind it - her parentheses are interesting! Will look forward to your thoughts on the next chapters.

Many thanks Joe! 16:48 yeah I am still with you I hope to have a first response/read along video out very soon. Have a good start into the weekend!

So many books and so little time. Best wishes with what you choose to read. I hope you get some great stories.

I hadn't read Will Self, Joe; I think I'd heard of him but only tangentially. I looked him up: the fact that, as part of a traveling retinue of reporters, he did heroin on John Major's plane, makes me want to read him. Give me a Keith Richards-esque writer any day. LOL Seriously, though: what's his best book? Which do you recommend?

Scotland was a very very violent place even into the c.17th when it has been described as Afghanistan.

Those H E Marshall books were written with school children in mind. They were immensely popular in their day and obviously they’ve been recently reissued because they must be nearly hundreds years old. Continually refreshingly fun videos Joe.

Joe, on the Germanic theme; I wonder if you've read any Hesse.

Joe, you were as funny as ever in this video. Thanks for some laughs on a Monday. EDIT, Tuesday. We also had a holiday yesterday!

Hotel Guest Book, a critical piece of the Western Canon. Das Boot is an amazing movie as well. Great video - you never bury your diction. Vespucci ain't no minor explorer...