If we as a country want more engineering* graduates ... all we need to do is put x amount of money towards it and say that there will be y scholarships available to study engineering. We persist in a… (View Post)

From 'Simon shows you maps' on facebook (I think Simon is Australian so has no particular axe to grind on this: (View Post)

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)