Why Ritchie really got banned from Oxford
Posted by Christie Malry on March 11, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Ritchie tells us all a a sob story about how he doesn't get invited to the high table at Oxford University any more:
Chris Wales - who was instrumental in setting it up - told me that was the case, in person when I was [a]t Oxford two or three years ago before Prof Mike Devereux, the head of the centre, contrary to all UK academic ethics, withdrew my invitation to all events there.
Firstly, contrary to all UK academic ethics? FFS... the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation is a private institution. Richard has no more right to be there than anyone else. It's not as if he's a recognised tax academic.
And the Centre did invite him to their annual conference in 2007. He sat at the back and didn't contribute a bean to the proceedings. Then they found he'd been posting all day on his blog slagging them and their guests off.
So why would they invite such an obnoxious character to their future events? Especially when it's patently clear that he has nothing of value to add to proceedings, other than his trademark rudeness.
He is a vain and silly little man – the thing that annoys him most is that Oxford, as the most prestigious academic institution in the country if not the world has given him the cold shoulder. His constant harping at Devereux’s work on incidence now must be read in light of this snub which he has taken personally.
His description of anything that annoys him as ‘unethical’ stretches the term to the point it becomes meaningless.
[...] are lies, damned lies and Ritchiebollocks. We covered this story before and exposed it for the tissue of lies that it is. Ritchie didn't get banned because he was [...]