Over one-third of births in the USA are dangerous Caesareans, especially in the poorest southern states. Charges for these deliveries are double the cost of normal births. Oh the eloquence of facts! En tout cas -- this assumption people are sick to begin with and not healthy galls us Darwinians.

Sir Nicholas Winterton on the common man, "They are a totally different type of people." Noisy children (nothing worse), an unacceptable level of commotion and racket. Why are class differences so profound, still, here as well as in GB? Your school still determines your future.

Movies are cartoons for a pre-literate society though Symposia watches them regularly. We rented Lawrence of Arabia from 1962 - how ridiculous the script, how Classic Comics the characters, and all that ghastly background music. On the other hand we always love the Ralph Lauren mood of the chick-flic Out of Africa, made 20 years later and with the travelogue a bit more subdued.