My slip is not showing; you and bonmot are the crossdressers around here.

I will concede my point about Dawkins was subtle so that is obviously why you missed it; to wit Dawkins is a rational man and self-declared atheist, yet he accepts the concept of AGW which is nothing more than a pseudo religious belief in which the Eden myth is repackaged and salted up with some modelling chicanery.

Incidentally, you said bonmot was up to speed on the AGW quackery; that is not true; the only thing he has presented is a bad impersonation of a teenager.

One paper, between you; that's 1/2 each.

cohenite,

Do you ever stop to think that Dawkins accepts the concept of AGW because it's not "....nothing more than a pseudo religious belief in which the Eden myth is repackaged and salted up with some modelling chicanery."

(Have you been receiving private tutorials from runner? - coz you're beginning to sound like one of his disciples)

Poirot stoops to demonisation when she loses the arguement. You certainly have become a disciple of the warmist religion as shown by your lack of reason.

runner,

Poirot doesn't stoop to demonise (That is your department - remember?)....she stoops to conquer (n'all that).

I'm afraid you'll have to take cohenite in hand. He hasn't quite got the hang of runnerspeak - he didn't once utter the words: "dogma", high-priest","Christophobic", "hater", "self-righteous", "Godless", "perversion", "immoral", ...etc, etc, etc.

Not good enough, really.

<<Poirot doesn't stoop to demonise>>

Come come Runner, you misjudge her.
She never needed to "stoop", she always lurks there

Enough of the name-calling already, it's tiresome and unproductive. Courtesy ladies and gentlemen.

Church schools receive funding from the State because they are doing the State's job - educating - and they generally do it better than the State schools (as evidenced in their success rates re achievement and university entries, and their increasing popularity with those who don't mind paying a little extra for excellence).

Anti-discrimination has a place, but it should not interfere mindlessly and at the expense of the pursuit of excellence and worthy outcomes. The spirit and the objective of laws and mores (and contracts) need to be observed, and not be overtaken by simplistic compliance with the 'letter' - or to satisfy possibly miscreant interests.

The best qualified applicant in any situation is a combination of qualities and aptitudes, determining 'fit' and suitability - as much determined by organisational charter, culture, composition, structure and objectives as by individual qualifications. No-one wants bulls in the china shop, or square pegs in round holes. All organisations should have reasonable leeway in determining that 'fit'.

As for bullying, this appears to be far more prevalent in State schools, and dare I say in society at large. The best schools provide good example, and should be enabled to continue so doing by means of a 'proven' formula - even if it means going against a political correctness run rampant.