Comments on: And we moved to Paraguay http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/and-we-moved-to-paraguay/ never starts to amaze Sun, 28 Apr 2013 04:28:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Phil http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/and-we-moved-to-paraguay/#comment-581 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:44:39 +0000 http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/and-we-moved-to-paraguay/#comment-581 It is true that UK think tanks tend to be staffed by quite young people … The short-comings of that are various

That was all I was saying, really. I said it more snarkily than I needed to – I didn’t mean to imply that all think-tankers are callow, over-confident neophiliac jargonauts who delight in change for its own sake. (Apart from anything else, I wouldn’t be reading your blog if I thought that applied to you.) Just, you know, people like those guys at that place…

]]> By: Will Davies http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/and-we-moved-to-paraguay/#comment-580 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:02:59 +0000 http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/and-we-moved-to-paraguay/#comment-580 Come on, I was simply searching for an example of heterogeneous groups. For the record, I only have one remaining grandparent.

It is true that UK think tanks tend to be staffed by quite young people, but that’s quite a lot to do with the fact that the vast majority of the jobs are not very well paid (at least in the eyes of a 40- or 50-year old). The short-comings of that are various, and include some of those you describe. However my post was not seeking to explore whether or not these institutions are of much political significance or not, only about this exact question of how they relate to their various audiences.

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