No I am real, honest ;) (View Post)

There is no evidence of such a decline at all. The decision to turn universities into businesses first and seats of learning/research second was an ideological one not one borne out of necessity. (View Post)

We had leading universities for decades without students having to pay for them. The change to student fees was a political/philosophical decision and not an inevitable one. (View Post)

Were they meant to? Taking him at face value, I understood that Hunt's intention with this budget was to get more people into work rather than necessarily making people feel immediately better o… (View Post)

When the pension age for men was set at 65 in 1925, average male life expectancy was 57. Life expectancy for men didn't exceed pension age until 1948. (View Post)