“I know what it says but I haven’t actually read it... I didn’t think it was exciting. That’s one of the reasons I didn’t sign it, because it was too obvious and rather moderate. And also that there was very little controversial in it. I didn’t feel a great call to sign it. The other is, insofar as it had a project, it was to redeem or resuscitate the left, which is a project I’m not really sure I’ve got any sympathy with. It was basically trying to say, look, not everyone on the left is a moral idiot about the war. Okay, I knew that, and was at one point very interested in proving it, but I’m not sure it’s the most important thing to prove. Certainly more salient is the fact that most people on the left DO practice moral idiocy.”