I think stories of nationhood that nations tell themselves matter. The UK is actually in a state of flux that I don't think it has been in during my lifetime in that the national identities of t… (View Post)

I agree, while respecting the right of the people of NI to choose. I genuinely think that the existence of NI makes it more difficult to tell a positive, inclusive, and cohesive story about the UK. W… (View Post)

Touché! It was actually my aspiration to join the PB Legal Eagles that did it and they are nothing but a force for good, or so I hear. (View Post)

Why thank you, but no one would have thought me a likely prospect going in. When I told my Personal Tutor, some time in 2nd Year that I was thinking along those lines he got a rather sceptical look o… (View Post)

I have to say my own personal experience of this rather colours my views about the benefits of the expansion of University education. By all reports I was bright, but not particularly academically-st… (View Post)