of course there are cheerful minority groups. but for the deeper unfolding of the concept of identity we are mainly indebted to thinkers with a background amongst the marginalised and oppressed, or those who have become empathically involved with such communities.

the oppression of children is hardly recognised as yet, but i hope this group will be making its distinctive voice heard before too long.

children are unique amongst minorities in that on the one hand no-one remains a member forever, and on the other, everyonbe has been one.

whilst i feel it is philosophically questionable to make sexuality a major criterion for one’s identity, i salute gay people for their courage in challenging crude, and generally hypocritical, preconceptions about the role of the erotic in an examined human life.

sixty grand!!!??? i spend more than that every saturday evening (true, i am blessed with a lot of very thirsty friends, a not insignificant proportion of whom also insist on weekly assailing the inner directors of their misery with pseudo-therapeutic cosmetic powders snuffed up the nose through cylindrically convoluted items of fiat currency)

can we keep a sense of proportion here?

This is just one example.

“A resource pack for schools.”

You couldn’t make it up.