In part, he believes, this was ideological: he was surrounded by string theorists.
For one thing, Salam doesn't follow any clear ideological line; he is both anti-Saddam and anti-American.
But for all his involvement in high-profile litigation that strikes along popularly held conservative ideological lines, he is a surprisingly solitary actor.
Listen to the Tory council leaders – like Southampton's, who said that for "ideological reasons" he is "going for outsourcing, externalisation, privatisation".
I will not apologise for Labour's investment in schools and the NHS – that's what Osborne wants because he wants to blame Labour for the ideological cuts he is making now.
But it is important that the admiration of Mr. Bush's salesmanship not blind us to the sharply ideological policies he is offering in a kind of personality bubble-wrap.
One thing that emerges from Mr Perry's time as governor, however, is that his business dealings with foreign countries are more pragmatic than ideological; he has been dinged for making deals with China and Venezuela.
Julius is at first intimidated by Farouq's intellectual confidence and ideological certainty, but he is attracted by it, too.
(Alice Rivlin, a Fed governor from June , 1996 to July, 1999: "He's not very ideological". Andrea Mitchell: "He is not doctrinaire". William McDonough: "Broad-gauged. He would have been the perfect P.P.E". — politics, philosophy, and economics — "candidate at Oxbridge").
