One of my favourite bloggers, the late and much lamented Norman Geras, used to have a feature on his blog where he asked people to fill in a questionnaire about their intellectual, sporting, political and cultural influences and passions. I thought I'd offer some of my own answers to the questions, for those who are interested.
Who
are your intellectual heroes? > C S Lewis, Roger Scruton, Pope Benedict XVI,
Peter Hitchens, Edmund Burke, Alasdair MacIntyre.
What
are you reading at the moment? > For pure entertainment, Ngaio Marsh's Death In Ecstasy, an old-fashioned whodunit, and as brainfood NT Wright's Romans For Everyone, about St Paul's Epistle to the Romans.
Who
are your cultural heroes? > Inter alia: Vaughan Williams, Thomas Tallis, Augustus Pugin, P G Wodehouse, Patrick
O'Brian, JRR Tolkien, JMW Turner, Mark Kermode.
