I have just come back from dinner at our family's favourite local Indian restaurant and have been mulling this over for some time. However, as Antoine de Saint-Exuper is claimed to have said: 'Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.' This is a saying I happen to find agreeable, so the post proper will consist of a mere three lines. It follows:

As I was preparing to go out for dinner, I was thinking how it could be said to be morally reprehensible, possibly even dangerously right-wing, to make children go to school by law.

As I was having dinner, I overheard a teenage girl at a nearby table asking how to spell 'awkward'.

Make of it what you will.