I'm disappointed to say that the shaming of Orlando Figes did not totally surprise me.
It is not unusual for our more talented academics to be vain, self-serving, and subsequently bitchy to their colleagues. If you're born clever, you can end up mistaken that it makes you superior to others.
Figes, despite a successful career, a marriage and kids, has never shaken off the air of a cocky teenager who wants to show off.
And now he has to sit on the naughty step. Bad boy, naughty boy! In your basket!
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