Alain de Botton, the Swiss-born author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, is cited in the article “Is British football scared of brains?” (The Guardian, 05.05.12) in which David Baddiel agrees with Andrew Anthony that “British culture is suspicious of intellectuals” and goes on to state that the “only way you’re really allowed to be an intellectual in Britain is to be a foreigner living here, or at least sound like one (hence Alain de Botton), and I don’t think that anti-intellectualism is particularly worse in football than any other mainstream arena”
Alain de Botton, the Swiss-born author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, is cited in the article “Is British football scared of brains?” (The Guardian, 05.05.12) in which David Baddiel agrees with Andrew Anthony that “British culture is suspicious of intellectuals” and goes on to state that the “only way you’re really allowed to be an intellectual in Britain is to be a foreigner living here, or at least sound like one (hence Alain de Botton), and I don’t think that anti-intellectualism is particularly worse in football than any other mainstream arena”.
