PPE says it all really. Philosophy, Politics and Economics is little more than a course in sycophantic sophistry with a thin veneer of pseudo-scientific bollocks thrown in for good measure. It was developed specifically for civil servants – everything the aspiring apparatchik needs! – and it has been argued – by Oxford’s own Professor Geoffrey Evans – that the course’s success is a self-perpetuating feature of the class system.

Apart from scientific (the epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson has done more to warn against the dangers of class than any political philosopher of the last 50 years) and practical degrees like agriculture and engineering (it would only take 10 Bucky Fullers to change the world!) the vast majority of degrees are bullshit; just part of the self-perpetuating filtration system which ensures that powerful remain powerful and the working class remain voiceless.

I assure you that when ordinary working class people end up at Oxford they come out of the other end not as Beeb wankers, but as nervous wrecks, having been shoved in at the deep end of a world of privilege and entitlement they cannot relate to.

There are those who are born into the cult of the bourgeois & there are those who aspire to it and then there are those who subscribe to it. When a person uses his or her privilege & status of the bourgeoisie to manipulate, control, exclude & disempower us who are working class then he or she is a paid up member of the cult & deserves to be sent to the proverbial firing squad as the Oxbridge British media do

But birthright into the cult of the bourgeois does not prevent an individual from being a comrade of the working classes or a member of the Anarchist Movement but it should prevent him from the arrogance of the assumption that he is an authority on us as Owen Jones has done. I don’t claim to be an authority on black comrades and speak on their behalf because they don’t need me to do so & neither do I need Owen Jones to speak on my behalf nor do the rest of the working class. We are capable of doing so for ourselves.

So as far as making things clear is concerned, surely the BBC should have made it abundantly clear in their introduction that Ridley was a fanatical anti-Western activist with a severe case of Stockholm syndrome.

Surely "as any fule kno" the BBC is Soviet Britain's Pravda.So it is not likely that they would invite Peter Hitchens to make a documentary on Grammar Schools.BBC 4 is always making documentaries about Britain's vanished 20th century past with the same tedious female voice doing the narration.These documentaries are a sort of continuing obituary of a dead civilization as narrated by one its murderers.I can generally take about twenty minutes of one before my annoyance level reaches the point of changing channels

I am also against the recent creation of a fifth province of the United Kingdom, Livingstonia, or ‘Greater London’. This sizeable Republic (for its elected head of state is really a mini-President, though he is called a mayor) subverts the whole shape of the British constitution, and creates a needless new power in the country. What London needs is small, efficient, truly local borough councils, not some grandiose and gargantuan Thing.

Much as I despise Thatcher I remember that under Blair and Brown’s watch far more people died in the wars they waged, services were privatised that Thatcher never dared to, the gap between rich and poor got wider than under Thatcher, the Thatcher anti-union laws stayed in place while the Union bosses continued to fund Labour, Legal Aid and civil liberties were trashed under Labour and Labour carried on selling Council homes and built hardly any. While we rightly loathe Thatcher,we would do well to remember what the scum in the Labour Party did to us all when they had the power to really make changes.

It’s clear from Zweig’s book that continental civilisation before 1914 had, in many ways, reached a level that it has yet to regain nearly a century later. The approved version these days is that war brought huge technological and social advance (the then French Ambassador to London, Paul Cambon, said after 1918 that Britain had undergone an actual revolution during the war, and this was certainly just as true in the 1939-45 war). But aren’t we inclined to see the ‘liberation’ of women from ‘domestic drudgery’ 9and their transfer to industrial and commercial drudgery)) as an unalloyed good, just as we tend to view universal suffrage as automatically wonderful, and the much-increased level of state intervention in daily life as broadly beneficial.

But were they? Did we take the right turning? Few blessings are unmixed, most come with curses. And the price we paid, in lives and health, for these revolutions, was colossal. Was it worth it?

The most urgent, modern Tory duty is to fight back against, to root out, the insidious identity politics of the post-1980s Left, and its consequent cultural manifestations. No simple government Act will change things, no counter-hegemony can be established in a single parliament. The fight to de-politicise the random, arbitrary facts of genetic life will require a lifetime of effort. Hoisting a woman on her party’s petard, because her mouth sometimes runs away from her: that’s a step in the wrong direction. That is playing, to be blunt, into the enemy’s hands, by accepting their rules of the game. Upon whom will the spotlight of the Two Minute Hate fall next?