[johnm]

[eltonioni]

Of course, it works the other way around too. Steelworkers can retrain as dancers if they get a chance and they can entertain and educate many more people than any dance company.

[Keveng]

A great response

[Pete L]

Prolly working for the KGB .....,,,

Naa ...I thought you had to go to Cambridge to work for the KGB?

Dang! Missed out on that.......................

But it would have given you a chance to describe some or all of a woman as dead-drop gorgeous.

[kanga]

C P Snow's "Two Cultures" divide lives on: a science venue is ineligible for the support offered to 'cultural' institutions:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-54623453

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures

[perhaps that's why JAM got no grant under this scheme, either ]

[kanga]

Prolly working for the KGB .....,,,

Naa ...I thought you had to go to Cambridge to work for the KGB?

[belatedly coming in to refute this prolonged calumny ]

The 'Cambridge' spy ring should properly have been called the 'Trinity' one (Burgess, Philby & (at the ring's centre) Blunt; Maclean was Trinity Hall). Alumni of my College, King's, were patriotic stalwarts of Bletchley Park (Turing the best known of several).

Ironically, the pre- and post-war image of Trinity was 'right-wing' and of King's 'left-', partly because of the better known, politically active, academics at each. Made for good cover, I guess