Were joined this week by Robert Oulds, director of the Bruges Group @BrugesGroup which is a think tank which spearhead the intellectual fight against the European Union founded after a speech by Margaret Thatcher in September 1988. He explains how it all works for us 500 million Europeans: The Council Of Europe, European Commission and European Parliament. Norway and Switzerland are not in the EU but they do trade with Europe, apparently without a problem so how and when did we join the EEC and why are we in the EU? Christine Townsend @IfBChristine joins us to discuss education in Bristol and the influence of the Merchant Venturers. Why are two of our public schools now Academy schools funded by central government and questioning Labour Councillor Derek Pickups role in that privatisation. What is an aceademy and how are modern schools funded and governed? What other areas of public life are governed by unelected Merchant Venturers whose origins are in the discovery of America, the genocide of native Americans and the slave trade?