Just had an interesting meeting with a researcher and Ferguson came up. She's met him a few times and had some tidbits. Apparently his Oxford colleagues were all equally appalled by his move to popular right wing revisionism.
He would have been my tutor had I read Modern History instead of what I did read.
My room in the third year was above his study. Let's just say he had a prolonged and detailed introduction, via his ceiling, to 94-95 jungle and hard techno, whether he liked it or not.
It was revenge for him waking me up most mornings by driving his ridiculous midlife crisis TVR into the quad outside.
John Gray was in the same college, in his bearded grump phase. I doubt they got on.
I think Ferguson is a very good historian though, despite all that. But then, I'm not a fucking marxist like you lot.