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If you have the money you can buy your way in without having any talent or ability at all. That is the whole point of private education...

In general pack animals like us are not competitive within the pack. That is the whole point of being a pack animal. The competition is...

For most purposes you don't need a jig at all and it's much quicker. They don't feature in any of the old books, everybody managed...

Nonsense. Straw-man argument. Simplistic equality is not the issue, nor fairness, nor left wing ideology.

And often getting sacrificed at the end of term. Not unlike our own Prime Ministers. You should read David Graeber "The Dawn of...

Rubbish. Evolution gave us the ability and the means to cooperate and work together. Basic survival meant we should work as a pack and...

In general the opposite is true. You are obviously mixing with the wrong set!

...and that being on the bread line is a life style choice! 🤣

I never said anything of the sort! What I do say is that to demonise "socialism" on the one hand, or on the other to idealise socialism...

Straight edges and simple spindle gouges are really easy to freehand, and it's the best way as you can keep refreshing the edge as you...

You think everybody should be merchant bankers? If they were, do you think they could manage without "basket makers", delivery drivers...

Firstly, I didn't say that, and secondly, I think most of what you say is absolute nonsense.

Agreed. Monbiot expresses it much better than I could.

Monbiot puts it rather well, I think: If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a...

Well you did at one point. It's a shifting target. So what? Do you seriously think this is a decision which people freely make? There...