Rules for radicals

Had lunch with my old friend Todd Buchholz in Cambridge earlier in the week. We first met in Washington DC in 1983 ... but I've told you that before.

Anyway, we sat outside in the sun, a few feet from Magdalene Bridge (above) and had a good old chat.

Todd mentioned the writer Saul Alinsky (who needless to say I had never heard of). Apparently Alinsky is considered to be the founder of modern "community organising", the precursor perhaps to David Cameron's Big Society.

Todd also talked about Ernest van den Haag and an incident between the Dutch social critic and John Banzhaf, the arch anti-tobacco campaigner once described as a "guerrilla public interest lawyer".