That's not how I read your original post, in which you postulated the theory that all large business was inherently amoral due to the need to maximise profit. I don't agree with you, and offered up a small business for comparison, and am still waiting to hear from you if think a small business, fol...

What about the small businessman? The person who has an idea and who decides to back themselves, putting a lot of time and effort into growing the brand. Are they also amoral, when in the fullness of time they can enjoy the salary/profits that their endeavours brought them? The nice house in a dece...

Expecting a large shareholder-owned company to act morally is, generally, futile. Its raison d'etre is to make as much money for shareholders as possible and will put itself at a disadvantage, compared to its competitors, if it fails to utilise profitable options that may be morally repugnant to oth...

I'd say that your definition of "social" differs from mine, regardless of your job.

In all fairness, there is evidence that someone called Jesus existed. Historicity of Jesus. Just to play, erm, Devil's advocate ... To agree with the Christian philosophy, as purportedly preached by Jesus, doesn't require belief that he existed. A bit similar to liking Shakespeare, regardless of wh...

You can bet they don't have to deal with WH Smiths wholesale department... Back in the day, I used to have a permanent order for (ahem) Aquarist and Pondkeeper :oops: at a WH Smith shop in Huddersfield. Then WHS banned Private Eye (anyone round here old enough to remember that event?). So I cancell...

Is it acceptable for this lot to black up, whilst we are left to lament the loss of the Black and White Minstrels? That would be the Black and White Mistrels who were pepetuating the N-word Minstrel thing, the happily intellectually-inferior slave singing along? I don't see the similarity but I'm s...

The unlikely.

If only Gordon Brown had legislated against your ineptitude, eh?
Bloody socialists.

To be fair, I should have said the C of E, rather than Christianity or religion, as being on the way out. Ten per cent more in the UK are now stating that they have no religion than said so ten years earlier and I'm guessing that many would previously simply acceded to being termed as C of E even th...