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Blimey - is this one still going So are they lefties or not? (My money's on not)

Good post. My limited, but real, contact with the BBC, while probably less extensive than yours, is entirely consistent with this. I think the BBC could be justifiably accused of being middle-class in orientation, and too bound up with what goes on in London and SE England (though they are...

I don't disagree that there is a problem with corruption in many African states, and there are plenty of competing theories about how such corruption gets established in economically under-developed tribal societies. I was simply challenging your point that this is how Africans "behave...

racist assumptions about how black Africans behave "naturally"

Dear oh dear. And I suppose they have "a natural sense of rhythm" too?

But which way does the causality go? -- this study implies that higher intelligence makes people more left wing (and vice versa), but maybe the right-wingers start off intelligent, but it's only the subsequent years of reading the Daily Mail that stunts their intellectual growth

I rest my case

I am so looking forward to the sophisticated political debate on NSC when Thatcher finally kicks the bucket