So last week's arts announcements, and the prior decision to close BBC3 rather than BBC4, can be seen as having a strong element of political coalition-building about them.
On reflection, I think it's a bit more complicated than I suggested in my previous post on this topic, because there's a strong element of cynicism as well as genuine intellectual confusion.
Perhaps helping their case, unlike traditional travel companies, programmes such as Remote Year have a strong element of professional selectivity.
The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.
As such, it suggests Heaney's conception of his role as a writer always included a strong element of the pedagogic.
BOINC even has a volunteer help desk where experienced users can advise newcomers via Skype, a free internet-telephony service.As well as collaboration, there is also a strong element of competition among computing volunteers.
If you think, as I do, that there is a strong element of fantasy in the present pricing of tech and dot-com stocks but are beginning to wonder whether it is foolish to buck so powerful a trend, get John Carswell's The South Sea Bubble.
Your blogger (who has toiled longer than is good for her in the undergrowth of party funding), would make two points.The first is that it was inevitable that the committee would recommend a strong element of state funding as a way of guaranteeing cashflow to parties with fewer strings attached than personal or company donations.
I would expect that American conservatism will always feature a strong element of ideological anti-statism, just as Dutch conservatism will always feature a strong element of secular libertarianism and sexual freedom, and French conservatism will always feature a profound dedication to protectionist regulation and cheese labelling.
Nevertheless, there seems to have been a strong element of personal choice by the forward as to where he went.
