No culpa mea or otherwise, needed! It was just one of those things that seemed extremely odd so I was fascinated by the context. But makes some sort of sense as it’s the whole “keep the SNP out” nonsense.

Am I misunderstanding a local Edinburgh political subtlety? It looks like there’s 17 SNP, 14 LD, 11 Lab? Doesn’t massively dispute your overall point, but they’re not the biggest group?

Sadly not! But thank you for the name - might add it to my list!

It’s also such an open goal for Labour against Reform. Lots of parents benefit from SEND support (not enough), and you have Tice et al suggesting there’s too much SEND. Labour could absolutely use this as a wedge issue that also means more parents get the support they need.

Wonder if the good old Church of Satan can pull a few court cases where they object to the “Good Book” on the basis of religious grounds, or religious parents who hold a belief other than Christianity filing a case against the use of the Bible.

Anyway, Happy Pride, from a gay man who is happily married in what had, prior to a change in understanding, been an exclusively heterosexually defined institution.

…and I would suggest we look more towards vested interests, powerful ideologues, a corporatist world system that seeks to maintain control… and their own wish to obstruct truth and obscure reality, than postmodern academics critiquing how we understand the world.

…and an understanding that different cultures, communities and people have different understandings of the world, is hardly the “death of objective truth”, it is recognising that what was seen as THE truth, is A truth. Postmodernism is a helpful critique of dominant ideas…