Ideologically blind

I've just been listening to the "Today" program on radio 4.

And today there was a section on education and school admission policy, which isn't what I want to comment about.

No, I was irritated by a comment from a representative of the Barnados charity, which complained that the difference between the academic achievement of the rich and the poor hadn't shrunk. And by implication that was a bad thing the government could fix.

Now, I don't know about you, but I can see a very simple reason why this might be the case - which just didn't seem to occur to the representative.

Intelligence is an inheritable trait - and intelligence can be linked to both educational achievement and income.

True, the link is far from perfect. It's an indication only. But we should not be terribly surprised if the children of the "winners" of the last generation "win" this one as well.

We should be taking advantage. Look, look , study the sciences. Understand the universe. Learn how we can manipulate reality at the level of the atom. Build server farms.

Because science and technology are directly responsible for the industrial revolution, the computer revolution and now the biological revolution.

Each such revolution has benefited the society as a whole, eventually.

Trying to push back the tide - sorry, ignore reality for an ideology that says everyone is equal and that it's the systems fault that they haven't achieved...

Hasn't.