We've lost - this round. We get up again tomorrow.

So can I suggest "markets are never equal" as a starting point. I think you can get an awful long way from that.

"surprisingly" is not the word I would be using there.

It is policy now. But current policy and its presentation has to grapple with the fact that rejoining is years away even if we started the process today. And there are lots of good arguments for not doing that, not least that we have made ourselves untrustworthy and we have to rebuild trust first.

actually rejoining is LibDem policy.

I just checked. I've read exactly thirty this year.

Merely pointing out that if that is the case in your car, it must be differently configured to most. Perhaps you could explain how the lights of the car behind don't reach your door mirrors.

Yes. COYS and TTID.

and yes, we've done it.

And I was number

They can solve that just by taking some lessons from the development of the Daleks.

2/2 Educational policy currently solves that problem inelegantly by teaching compliance - hence ridiculous and cruel practices like putting students in solitary for having the wrong pencils or the wrong length hair.

That is problematic though, because the powers that be don't just want us not to think They want us to think while we're at work, so that we add to their profits. But they want us to not think while we're not at work. 1/2

It's a general problem of the way we live - call it culture, politics, whatever. We're socialised from birth into not thinking, because if we think we might conclude that we can do something about the way the world is run.

I feel quite perturbed at you self defining as "anti-intellectual". What do you mean, exactly? Because it seems to me that you are quintessentially an intellectual - in other words, someone who habitually reflects thoughtfully on what you are doing.

I'm trying to think of a phrase along the lines of "nominative determinism" for such a mistake. 😆

It did however provide one moment of absolutely classic joy.

Me: I'm speaking on behalf of the account holder because they are deaf.

Them: I'm sorry. I'll put you through to the bereavement team.