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..If you think Education is expensive, try ignorance!.

What your father did was by choice. I am sure the money was nice as well. If people do that by choice.. marvellous. Of course people want to be busy , out in the world and make a difference ,but I think you and the respondents to that radio program are gilding a lily and putting a good face on...

Some jobs deserve killing!

Those are not socialist inclinations. In general such would be a demand that everyone pays their fair share of taxation,and that the fruits of production are shared . That there will be protection for the weak from the strong. I am all for freedom but on a level playing field.

This neatly brings one back to the illiteracy argument of last week. These people get trapped into a slavery of running multiple insecure jobs, hoping to get ends meeting. The highest they could theoretically earn, without eating ,or sleeping is 144 x 8 per week. Flecc, you are looking at...

As a Student I typically had a bike stolen every year.. well thats not exactly correct.. for 3.5 years I was the proud or not so proud rider of a Raleigh RSW16 .. yes an incredible imposition on an impressionable 18 year old . It lasted 3.5 years until some even more desperate idiot stole it...

Being from a different country, and respectful of the rights for your country to elect its own government,of course I did not vote in YOUR elections. ,I have however voted at every election and referendum in my own country, for the last 50 years,..except on one occasion when I was abroad. The...

Boy ,have you got it wrong. The mass media are called that for a reason. They mediate the world for the masses, and that includes both you and I .They determine the colour of your shirts, the diameter of the leg of your jeans , whether you are incensed by climate change or just see it as an...

Well I assume they had to. Despite all the posturing and noise,the UK is still a full member of the EU and accepts all the privileges and duties of membership. So it would be illegal to discriminate against a better offer on grounds of nationality

No. In a post EU situation, the UK can just do without vetinary inspections and live with the re-emergence of BSE, TB, hormone ridden beef etc. It is EU regulations..you know the unnecessary "red tape ",that prevents this . My home is in a coastal and semi rural area and prior to EU banning...

"Those who do not tolerate other cultures are by definition racist." I think that is slightly OTT. One can accept the singer but not the song

... Cannot resist the dig. This is one of the jobs for illiterates!.

Enjoy!.

That situation is even a lot more critical in the UK than in the USA or Poland or elsewhere. These countries have Constitutional Protection. ,The UK has none. What you have are conventions ..such as the one that Judicature is Independent.

The Irish passport office issued close to a million Irish Passports to eligible people last year . This is an increase of 7% on the year before . This includes UK, particularly NI citizens and the replacement market. Since all Ireland is 6 million , and the birth rate is 70,000 and...

In the stories I used to tell my children ,the Trolls lived Under the Bridges, Where is a big Gruff Billie Goat when one needs one?.

A bridge between NI and Scotland is a nonsense . Technically possible , incredibly expensive and only worthwhile if it were needed for strategic defense... As the Nantes Brest Canal in 18th century France. And yes NI might qualify as an EU ember . One of the Peace dividends was an intended...

You are correct. In the manufacturing organisation ,I was with, there were the proper engineering drawings ,and with the arrival of digital cameras, and cheap printers , stage by stage assembly pictures showing lead dress and orientation were developed for the assembly line..

No. They don't flourish they survive. They have lower life expectancy ,..which is the only objective measure of flourish . They end up in and out of prison, their choices are limited . Now the bit about functional literacy is different.. in the BJ class, I am sure I would be viewed as...

Brilliant!!. That is what I was saying from my first posting on the subject... And society was geared to accommodate that. But currently you need to get in the door.