> Lionel Robbins was one of the most egregious offenders in this regard. Adds another strange twist to my understanding of unfolding events concerning morality at LSE. I always assumed Robbins promoted Hayek to his LSE post. And I am certain that Hayek secured Popper his position. Yet Popper in Open Society and its Enemies was surely bidding for the moral high ground on behalf of anti-state factions. Indeed OSE was a rather successful attempt, on behalf of Hayek, to steal Russell’s (moral) thunder. I mention this in case my knowledge of a further twist, concerning Popper’s pupil Watkin’s position is of interest. In his later study, John Watkins made no criticisms of the authoritarianism of Hobbes to parallel those Popper had made of Plato and Hegel. And this was at a time when Poppers star was waning at LSE and the neo-traditionalist Oakeshott was apparently gaining ground. In private correspondence Watkins repeatedly directed me towards another neo-traditionalist, Collingwood. He surely must have known that in his “New Leviathan” Collingwood very clearly made it the duty of the (self selecting?) intellectually mature sections of society to lie to the rest? Rob Tye, York, UK