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This Week at Ben-Gurion Airport: A Teacher Who Is Looking for a Suitable Match, and a Freelance Programmer Who Defines Himself as a 'Wandering Jew With a Violin'
I met Tom Nairn, who has died at the age of 90, only once, when I was 17 or 18 and he came to speak at a meeting at my university. I remember wondering how someone even more shy, awkward, and dishevelled than I was could have become such a high-profile influence on the left. Nairn wrote not awkwardly but exuberantly, floridly, splendidly.