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As a Facebook group says: "The Conservatives - putting the N in Cuts since 1678" lol

This is a quirkly museum. It used to have an office that has been preserved as it was left and the first cordial bottles with stoppers as well as lots of tins / boxes from the past (like Pears Soap, Heinz tins etc). http://www.cityofbath.co.uk/Museums/body_bath_industrialheritagecentre.html

Exactly - Winston Churchill had both a stutter and a lisp, apparently. http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/myths/myths/he-stuttered

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Or for playing toy soldiers.

Just a continuation of the practice in public schools.

I'm just watching the highboard diving - wow those men are so, so fit - fantastic bodies

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I think it was later than the 60s, Trousers. My children were born late 60s, early/mid 70s and, like most of our generation, we could afford for one parent to stay at home. I only went back to paid work in the 80s (part time) because I was bored once the children were all at school. Women increasingly HAD to go out to work in the 80s because the huge rise in house prices meant that families couldn't afford to live on one income any more. Are you implying that it's wrong for women to go to work?

Stromboli, one of the Aeolian islands off the coast of Sicily, is also still very active.

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Johnny B - you're missing the point. Yes some degrees are maybe 'useless' but some graduates with useless degrees (in your eyes) go on to do good and worthwhile things. Using my family as an example again (sorry) - my SiL studied Marketing at Solent University. As part of his course he had to do some work experience. For him this entailed working with some children with special needs on a project. As a result, as soon as he graduated, he did a PGCE and now is a great primary school teacher with responsibility for special needs children in his school. Had he not gone to University to do a 'useless' degree, some children would have been much worse off. You can't judge everything in life on whether it returns a profit (although well educated children sounds like a good return to me). There's too much emphasis on 'profit' - there are other things in life that are as important.

TBF I find that hard to believe. My daughter had to repeat the first year of her maths degree because of illness. The local authority would only fund 3 years in total so we had to fork out for the repeat year, both tuition and accommodation even though, in those days, students didn't pay tuition fees at all.

Well obviously I don't know for sure, but I'd be very surprised if he did TBH. My point was aimed at JB who implied that, basically, philosophy degrees weren't worth anything in the real world and that he would only employ IT graduates for an IT job.

What a sad, sad world it would be if we didn't have excellent arts and humanities. Some things you just can't judge by a bottom line. Think of the money British theatre earns for the economy because of visits from tourists, for example.

Given this country's great achievements in the Arts, Sciences and Technology, I think it would be a crying shame if a huge talent is missed because his / her family just couldn't afford to send him / her to the best university. In the future, it will be even more Eton / Oxbridge judges, politicians and medics but they won't necessarily be the best.

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My son, the one with a Philosophy degree, has a very senior position with one of the major IT players in the world.

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Johnny - the degree subject shouldn't matter too much. For example, many politicians studied PPE at University - hardly a 'useful' degree. My own son read Philosophy and makes a huge contribution (in tax as well as the work he does). But I do agree that some degrees are perhaps of less importance. However, going to university and getting a degree says more about the student - self-discipline, determination, organisation - than the subject itself. This is why many employers look for graduates with good degrees, irrespective of subject.

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