I found the list of possibilities given didn't fit me at all. As I think I said before, my English teacher quoted Aristotle (I think he said) to the e...
It doesn't happen because, so far, the capitalists have murdered those who try to bring it about. If it doesn't happen the species, however, is finish...
Socialism is control by the working class. Where does this happen, please? Where it has been attempted the capitalists murder people in very large num...
One developed monopoly capitalism under a dictator, the other state capitalism under a dictator. It was the war with the centre of world capitalism th...
How many capitalist states that claim Christianity have ever shown the slightest sign of having heard anything that Jesus said? Capitalist states clai...
We know perfectly well why Victorian people said 'as cold as charity'. We also know why Jesus said, 'The poor you have always with you'. Charity is ab...
I find that sort of thinking baffling. What can 'moral' mean in such circumstances, or - if you can present their being exercised - 'illegal'? It seem...
On the stuff about 'nationalism' and 'race', I thought the following was interesting as a comment on our own wicked culture: Rugby World Cup: Wales v ...
I liked the bit in the I this morning comparing the whole sorry saga to Blackadder - it had been very funny, including Cummings' cunning plans, but we...
The widespread use of the word 'white' to describe human groups has always seemed to me extremely odd, since the only humans I've ever seen who looked...
Who asked you to reply for 'an entire culture'? To instance the other two languages/cultures I know passably well, would you wish seriously to argue t...
Who said it was monolithic? It is , however, hugely affected by the language in which it is experienced. The Westminster regime has tried to destroy o...
My Wife comes from up there. The trick is to do what we did in the Eighteenth Century, and start see those who speak in a foreign fashion as foreigner...
To connect all this with Brexit again, the most obvious political unit for a small country is a large Federation made of all sorts of others. The EU, ...
When I got this message I took it for granted that it was from the Brexiteers, maybe Boris. Is there really public communication about other things ag...
Punshhh - I love the Boris Isles! In my own opinion, certain parts of England have very rich traditions, and have dialects as different from Standard ...
What is all that supposed to be about? If there are no areas of the Country where the language is used, it ceases to be in any meaningful sense a coun...
It seems to me that they manufactured rather more convincing Prime Ministers back then. I rather suspect that Johnson is a rather late example of the ...
To wish to keep your own culture alive is normal. It doesn't need defence or political guff. I would notice whether your wife spoke the language of he...
You speak a language or you don't: it's not difficult to grasp, surely. ? The language gives you access to a particular culture. Still with me? 'Race'...
I don't know whether that might be addressed to me, in which case I am not the man to ask, since I seem to have had an attack of extreme theory-amnesi...
I agree with all you say. The point about our culture is that it makes the history of these things easier to remember. It is astounding to me how, in ...
If you like to think in that peculiar way. The only point of any country is its culture, and if that is destroyed, what's it matter who replaces it? T...
Duw, there's awful! Better call me 'Taff''! :) As a believer in 'races' I don't get started, I'm afraid! I don't know where you are/were, so it's diff...
I don't think, after the last few years, that if I were rich I should even be tempted to send a child of mine to Eton, if I ever had been before. What...
The incredible robbery that has gone on over the last few hundred years, as in Ireland, does mean that those who want to 'get on' have to move out, bu...
It's a long time since I read Gramsci, an experience I recall as liberating - but you always have doubts about your earlier self when people speak wit...
It's always been so. One third of the population are English now - mainly geriatrics, fortunately, but they and the holiday-homers close down our scho...
Yes, I can see that. Though I think they are connected, it is difficult to think outside your own idioms. I think that spiteful people are always tryi...
Like so many things, it is surely a matter of economic background? My Mother's family were Cardis, people who regard Scots and Yorkshiremen as wild, d...
It is becoming very evident that trying to monopolise the 'Remain' position is the Liberals' great hope of a political comeback after they destroyed t...
Perhaps I misunderstood what you were saying. Automatically the people on one side are convinced while those on the other believe it is propaganda. My...
If we spend too much time speculating about 'God' I think we disappear into the clouds. I'd suggest that ever since the development of agriculture it ...
Frank - 'A Chinese friend tells me there was never any chance of that. Do you disagree?' Some sort of diplomatic fudge, conceivably: they still find H...
I gather from some of my HK sources that he whole business is getting mixed up with the Trump/China conflict, with American sources providing all sort...
The Tory project, ever since about 1910, has been to prevent any government from representing the working majority's interests and those interests eve...
'I don't know who you are referring to with your "nutters" and "drunken mob". At present, in both the U.S. and England, I see all sides as nutters who...
Like Trump, Brexit was something that nobody had any thought of before a tiny minority of extreme-right oddoes pushed for it, and, as with Trump, mill...
As I understand a great deal of modern theory, almost anything can be 'art' - it just depends on how we choose to see, say, an urinal or an unmade bed...
The second. The way the world is organised, a vast number of people are pushed about all the time and can't do much about it - except perhaps vote for...
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