tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post6759292168740018511..comments2024-03-29T15:13:42.610+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Corruption incarnateBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-49116421917054200162012-02-08T11:10:11.762+00:002012-02-08T11:10:11.762+00:00@JP - I entirely agree with you now, but I have to...@JP - I entirely agree with you now, but I have to admit I was completely 'taken in' by Rumpole as a youth. Perhaps becayse he was played by the actor Leo McKern who was one of my favourites. e.g. McKern played Socrates in a wonderful radio dramatization of The Apology, and also the lead role in a TV production of Ibsen's Master Builder which made a big impression on me at the time; . <br /><br />He was a great 'character actor' - which means a great *actor*, but one that was never a 'star' - I bracket him with Freddie Jones.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-55409555790317724132012-02-08T10:59:18.971+00:002012-02-08T10:59:18.971+00:00I find the Rumpole stories annoying because they a...I find the Rumpole stories annoying because they are so transparently a vehicle for transmitting the political views of the author. I don't like such stories when I agree with the political views being transmitted, but I really detest such stories when the political views are as odious as those of Mortimer. It is particularly annoying when the author makes the characters who hold his favored views intelligent and sympathetic, and the characters who hold the opposing views stupid and unsympathetic. In Rumpole, the prosecutors, the judges, and the police are reactionary blockheads dedicated to the vicious pursuit of putting the poor and unfortunate in horrid prisons. As a reader, I hate being railroaded like that.<br /><br />The persistent theme in the Rumpole stories that there is <i>nobody</i> who truly deserves to be in prison is simply insane. Civilization is impossible without prisons - or without Churches, yet that is exactly where PC is taking us (no prisons and no Churches).JPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-31700953786681181612012-02-07T22:25:56.906+00:002012-02-07T22:25:56.906+00:00He really was a loathsome Mr Smug.He really was a loathsome Mr Smug.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-35464380384376244582012-02-07T17:19:21.672+00:002012-02-07T17:19:21.672+00:00@Proph - well, I don't know about that . But -...@Proph - well, I don't know about that . But - thinking back on your piece on comedy - I find it horrifying how much talent went into the promotion of the anti-Good over the past half century. Really smart, clever, funny, charismatic, skilled people made it their life's work to permeate the culture with Leftism, atheism, moral inversion, ugliness, untruth, relativism/ nihilism, hedonism and so on...Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-11627124494884743872012-02-07T16:23:19.138+00:002012-02-07T16:23:19.138+00:00And now, barring some kind of unpublished repentan...And now, barring some kind of unpublished repentance and conversion (unlikely), he is in Hell, where God, in His infinite love, mercy, and goodness, will not permit him to continue suffering under the delusion that evil can triumph over good for long.Prophhttp://collapsetheblog.typepad.com/noreply@blogger.com