At what point did we internalise the idea that the best way to express your views is to smash the piggy bank?
Certainly, I am not a conservative, what ever that is, but reading and listening to your views is reassuring that there are people logically/rationally thinking through issues.
At our age you get told not to wear short skirts to school and then you get shouted at by men in cars on the way home anyway, and realising that it's wrong and that there are other people out there who share your views is great.
Perhaps the reader who best sums up your views is Dr Jenny Smy-Murdoch who started to read the paper aged five (50 years ago) encouraged by her grandmother who had been a student at Manchester University in the 1920s when C P Scott was a frequent visitor.
At this point, blocking individual housing developments to protect your views is tantamount to generational theft.
"The university's investigation did not undertake to evaluate the merits of your research," Zedeck writes, "but concluded that your right to publish and disseminate your views is protected under the umbrella of academic freedom".
