Those Bolshie Boffins Again

Among the cardinal disadvantages involved in forsaking a patriotic point of view for a merely rational one is, of course, a chronic intellectual blindness as to whether British science should include more science or more Britishness. Predictably, mere experts continue to agitate against the mainland alternative to unelected, Nazi-Soviet Strasbrussels science: an alternative which is both British enough to be named after an American space programme and scientific enough to keep an open mind on the prospects for the sunlit uplands. Just because independence from the beastly Euro-wogs is a disaster in every respect save the enrichment of the deserving, that is no legitimate basis for predicting failures in the future. Indeed, if mere facts are to be persistently shoehorned into the debate, one might as well expect some sort of vague awareness as to the failures that are already taking place.