IQ is heavily slanted to mathematical intelligence, and a certain type of linguistic facility ; and the latter is particularly affected by levels of verbal education. There are all sorts of forms of … (View Post)

That's created an amusing image of Blair and Brown bickering all the way to the Lords, for some reason. Something like the awkward paired and ceremonial walks together of Sunak and Starmer, or earlie… (View Post)

Pushkin is a genius. A true sign of what Russia is capable of had things gone better. I recommend all his poetry, and Eugene Onegin, to anyone who even vaguely likes to read. (View Post)

One person who admittedly did reintroduce quite a lot of Merrie after the rigours of the more Cromwellianite type of "dissent" , and as HYUFD hinted, was Charles II and the Restoration. I'm… (View Post)

Yes, sorry ! Ofcourse. The long English tradition of religious Nonconformism. A lot to be proud of there. (View Post)