I have no idea

This lunchtime, I was at the Treasury – at the invitation of my half-brother who is an official there – to hear a lecture by Professor Frank Trentmann. He was speaking about his latest book which is called “Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society and Commerce in Modern Britain”.
The Treasury officials there seemed to love it – but I had no idea what the relevance was today’s economic challenges. It was one of those events where I understood each word; I just couldn’t make much sense of the sentences that they made up. Do you ever attend meetings like that?

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One Comment

  • Mavis Smith
    June 3rd, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    Frequently, but mainly in the past. Although only two weeks ago I listened to a Consultant Rheumatologist lecturing on GCA (which I have) and thought – am I on a different planet?