Learning The Lessons

How about returning to a sensible number of universities, with a sensible number of people at them? No, that is not a call for smugness on the part of older institutions. Very far from it, in fact. Very far indeed.

Why are universities still under Business, and not returned to the restored Education Department? And why is the review of these things in the hands of Lord Browne of BP?

Anyway, things are not looking good for the bourgeoisie at the moment, and they will not be able to vent their anger by voting Lib Dem in 2015. The Lib Dems are part of the Government that so visibly and virulently hates them, far more than either Old or New Labour ever did.

It is hardly news that the poor do not live as long as the rich. The only thing that can be done about that is to make the poor richer. But what about "the gender pay gap"? Is there really any such thing? The whole thing is explicable entirely by time "off" to have children, but, as last week's fiasco made clear, Cameron and Osborne see that as at least as problematic as Harman and Hewitt ever did.

In the same vein is today's utterly bizarre, but completely unchallenged, identification as some sort of societal emergency of the fact that half of women over 50 are looking after children, the elderly, the sick or the disabled. Of course they are, and good for them, as well as for everyone else, especially children, the elderly, the sick and the disabled. I have a name for this phenomenon. I suggest that it be called "The Big Society".