Riots

I really thought I’d heard all the stupidity and ignorance going, over the last few days but, after watching Question Time, it seems I was wrong. Jesus, was I ever… An e petition to stop benefits and, inevitably, chuck those convicted of rioting onto the streets? Are you people real? Can’t you, just for once, [...]

The recent disturbances, riots, call ‘em what you will, have, for those with eyes to see, revealed many things. A divided society, actually a country with several societies; haves and have-nots, the included and the excluded and, most ominously, a society now comprised of those ‘for’ and those ‘against’ violence, lawlessness and social order. This [...]

OK, the police have been given the go-ahead to deploy water cannons, rubber bullets, live ammunition, flame throwers and nuclear weapons. A sanctimonious British public revel in the grisly images on our TV screens. The charred bodies of looters, still gently smouldering in the late summer breeze, lie dormant in the gutters. Dead chavs swing from lamp-posts as a baying [...]

Good old Maggie, eh? She sorted out those pesky unions, holding the country to ransom. And, bless her, she let you buy your own council house. Hey, you even managed to get yourself a piece of the ‘shareholding democracy’ when she sold off the utilities and telecoms so her fat cat mates in the City [...]