Socky

I was supporting your point from the other direction. My ex-school has gone from a bit of a dump (when I started) to a really good reason to buy a house in the catchment area. Most of that change hap… (View Post)

Perhaps their civil services are better than ours? (View Post)

I could live with that. My point is that arguing that sacrifices have to be made to get to a pure system is counter-productive. Nature will find a way... (View Post)

Why even try to make the whole system better if you can just game it enough to get the results you need? This is why the USSR is relevant. Beautiful and simple idea, crap in reality. As ever, perfect… (View Post)

That is plenty for most people, and basically how things operate at present. Anecdote time: when I was at school, we looked down on the local private schools, as they were mainly used by parents as a… (View Post)