"Frankie Cokeupthenozza"

I'm not being patronising and shit. I honestly don't know how to talk to people about politics if they don't understand class

Nothing will change in this country with regard to social mobility and the dominance of an inbred ruling class till the public schools are brought down. Consider the absolute absurdity of millions of working class people in London submitting to the rule of an old etonian prime minister and an old etonian mayor.

reinstitute grammar schools

What passes for architecture today is usually just a load of boxes piled on top of each other. Great art is an unmade bed. Could it be that the kings and the aristocracy had impeccable taste and, as they were paying for it, expected value for money? Now we have committees and we get 'The Angel of the North'.

Apparently. the key to high government office in Britain, is a first class Oxford degree in Modern Greats, preferably from Magdalen. Magdalen is unjustly proud, that five of its members are part of the present government.. Of these Huhne, Hunt and Hague were brilliant scholars of PPE, as is the PM Cameron (Brasenose). Therefore it is a legitimate concern to examine the subject matter, that these outstanding scholars were taught, to produce the less than superb state of the country they govern. Politics and economics are tangible subjects and one can more or less guess the tenor of these courses. But what is the content of the course in philosophy? Well, Doctor Ralph Walker, a most amiable Magdalen fellow, and eminent faculty member for nearly half a century, recalls his experience in the present number of “Oxford Philosophy” (Summer Editon 2011, page 7):


“...Oxford philosophers shared a conception of what the important philosphical problems were and how to resolve hem. ….In 1970 Davidson came to Oxford: suddenly we stopped talking about Wittgenstein and turned to Tarskian truth- theories. In 1972 we all agreed with Quine`s `dismissal of Aristotelian essentialism; then everyone read Kripke and by the autumn, the only question was about necessity of origin.” . Later Prof Walker made a side trip to OU Administration. “When I went there, Dummett`s anti realism was a central concern. When I returned the interest had died.” ditto.

Surely it is not surprising, that students fed on such a diet of trivia can not be expected to solve the real and essential problems of present day society and the policy of wasting scarce financial resources on the teaching of these esoteric doctrines, benefits no one but the erudite teaching staff.

I wish more power to your elbow to stop this rubbish