My brother in law - a man with no obvious specific skills but remarkable faith in himself - built his own house. Took him about four years It's really nice, and he learned a lot on the way. His … (View Post)

Why does the UK have to be more tolerant of radical Islam than Islamic states are? (View Post)

Comprehensives explicitly were NOT meritocratic. ISTR the term 'meritocracy' was coined pejoratively to describe the horror of 'the clever' rising to the top. (Sounds daft, but ba… (View Post)

How's that integration of cousin-marriers into the host population going so far? (View Post)

It took a good century and a half to integrate the Irish, and the Irish are about as unforeign as foreigners can be. Indeed, there are still separate schools for Catholics, and until fairly recently,… (View Post)