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Thanks, tatarsky. May well check that book out. :) Re: population growth/decline. Take your points but how do they fit with the (likely) fact that current levels of world population growth are ecologically unsustainable? Re: happiness. There seem to be a lot of surveys about comparing the...

True, they do offer generous bursaries, which arguably makes it better for people on low incomes, from a financial point of view, to attend Oxford than another, less wealthy university. I wouldn't count it as 'sponging' (although people do abuse the system): they're only doing what the...

Oh please. I wasn't saying that at all: just trying to object to the way in which soundslike1981 killed the discussion by calling everyone a bunch of students. Not a particularly useful approach imho, and one rooted in a branch of anti-academic snobbery I find particularly galling. (For the...

Of course it is. It's spending the money on books and piano lessons and second-hand meccano sets for your kids when you can't afford a car or a video player or new clothes for yourself (my parents did - and I am immensely grateful for it). Having said that, money makes everything so much easier...

Na. Fair enough. That is shit.

..."you're either with us or you're against us..."

Because of course, all theory is bollocks, isn't it? And academics are locked in their ivory towers, out of touch with the 'real world' and everything in it, creaming off our hard-earned taxes on their fat research grants blah bloody blah turn to page 13. I don't know what your definition of...

No-one is claiming it would be great. The point is it may happen. To point something out as a possibility is not the same as to condone it morally.

I think the key appeal of living in the big city is the combination of everyday anonymity (nobody recognising you on the bus etc.) with the freedom to contact like-minded people if you want. So you get the security of being able to hide yourself in the crowd - and I think it is a source of...