Houghton belongs to a certain subset of British celebrities – which can also count among its numbers Kerry Katona, Peter Andre and Reid – who are famous purely for talking about themselves and their average lives.
Purely talking aesthetics here: He is perfection.
I don't want to use the word "generic" but I think you want to talk about stuff that makes people say, "Wow, that was interesting," or "Wow, I actually learned something that time," or "Wow, I've never heard anyone have that conversation before," because if we're going to try to beat TNT just purely on talking about the same things they talk about, well, they have Barkley and we don't.
A cleverer option, explored in the Appendix to Lewis 1991 and in Hazen 1997 and 2000, is to simulate talk about ordered pairs using only resources that arguably are purely logical.
And we certainly do need more politicians who are prepared to go beyond the purely visceral, by talking about the complexities; the need to deal not only with immediate threats to security, but with the causes of that psychosis.
But what is interesting now, as the defender prepares to make his debut in Serie A with Roma, is the notion that he went to meet Zahavi purely to talk about moving abroad.
"Of course, I cannot deny there is not an influence, but we are talking about purely economic things".
"How we get there, a time scale and what's involved are all up for debate, to a certain extent purely because we are talking about something that's never been done before.
Chehadé stressed that the meeting currently underway in Buenos Aires is will not see any new ratifications or directives, and that it is purely designed to get attendees talking about the issues of gTLDs and internet governance ahead of next year's meetings.
The journalist Michael Kinsley has said, "It's hard to imagine a magazine article today having the kind of impact that [this] article and others had in those days in terms of everyone talking about it purely on the basis of the writing and the style".
