Who here would you like to sit down and have drink with?

You conspiratorial old cynic you.

I read a book about that a few years ago and was inspired to pull it off my bookshelf once again by your reference here.Here is a link for those unfamiliar with the book or the storry of Wittgenstein's Poker

Of course!!!! The day you two take of your aluminium helmets is the days the Earth stops spinning! Yeah I am getting younger and more naive every day. I think we need to review the Who will be the next world power? thread and start an Obama assessment thread in light of all our comments made back then (about 6 or 7 months ago now).I'll leave it to one of you two to suggest the exact topic. But I am up for having my face shoved in a puddle of my own wet panted naivety. If justified.

According to SO you and I are imbecillic deniers of real evidence. So I would keep the helmet on if I were you. But only with my own pants? Does that really count as gay? Oooh I am sooooo sexy. Sniff. Sniff. At least this is moderately less creepy than sniffing young girls bicycle seats. Which I genuinely don't do. Often. Well as long as the RAZD-Straggler rhyme-off doesn't go on as long as the RAZD-Straggler thread-off I will be there!

But who specifically are "the media"?

The media has bias to it's interests? Of course. But how many people are there with significantly different interests in the media? If your answer is "not enough" then I can only but agree. The interests are too narrow. Too few people do have far too much influence.But I still think that the idea that "the media" has this one, or at most two, sets of long term interests that you seem to imply requires more organisation, co-operation and planning than I think is realistic. It is this I find more conspiratorial than I can sign up to.Essentially we have my "competing dispirate interests" argument resurfacing again I suppose.

Well I work round the corner from the British museum and pop in there occasionally at lunchtimes.So it wouldn't have to be a big organised thing if ever you were in the vicinity.

Well I guess there are pros and cons to life in big cities. Easy access to stuff like that is a definite bonus.I am a big fan of the London museums in general (well in fact museums in general - but the London ones are the ones I know best). Went to college next door to the science and natural history museums in Kensington and was always in and out of those. These days I regularly take my son who is at that age where dinosuars and the animatronic TRex in particular hold a particular fascination.The British museum does sleepover events for kids as well which I would love to take him to when a bit older. Page not found | British MuseumEnd shameless museum plug.

I just wondered coz we haven't seen him here for a while.