The winner, The Line of Beauty (Picador), Alan Hollinghurst's poised and elegant portrait of the Eighties through the eyes of a young gay man, caused barely a ripple of dissent among critics, who heaped praise on it on publication and endorsed it loudly in all the recent newspaper books of the year features.
The Corbett family endorse it all, with Matthew saying last week, "Richard Cadell is as close to a Corbett as you can get".
It's not clear how seriously Yablo takes this idea, however; at any rate, it seems pretty clear that if he endorses it at all, he thinks it's true in only some contexts, i.e., of only some pure mathematical utterances.
The new policy says that the health benefits of circumcision are not great enough to endorse it for all newborn boys, but "are sufficient to justify access to this procedure for families choosing it".
The president of Estonia, several European foreign ministers, and Federica Mogherini, the European Union's foreign-policy commissioner, have all enthusiastically endorsed it.
Indeed, he might think he's doing badly, even as he is satisfied with his life: he endorses it, warts and all, and is grateful just have his not-so-good life rather than some of the much worse alternatives.
Although Balsillie's plan has dominated the news in Canada and apparently enjoys widespread support, not all Canadians endorse it.
The British government endorses it, after all, and everything they say sounds smart.
"They know it is endorsed by all the leading victims of their abuses in recent years – people like the McCanns, Christopher Jefferies and the mother of Abigail Witchalls, whose evidence at the inquiry was so shocking.
They know it is endorsed by all the leading victims of their abuses – people like the McCanns, Christopher Jefferies and the mother of Abigail Witchalls, whose evidence at the inquiry was so shocking.
