Bloody Do-Gooders

[poliphilo]

A.N. Wilson (in the Mail, where else?) blames the Philpotts on The Welfare State. Apparently no-one lived fecklessly or killed their children before that well-meaning but naive Lord Beveridge loused things up....

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[resonant.livejournal.com]

*googles*

WTF?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Bit of a mindbender, eh?

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

I hate the Mail, a fickle paper of disrepute

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

But if we didn't read it how would me know what the bastards were thinking?

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I saw that too.

Why does anyone read the daily freakin' malice?

Sigh :o(

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It has some good picture galleries.

And- call me any names you like- I have a certain regard for Peter Hitchens.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Why doesn't he go and write for somewhere that isn't hatemonger in ordinary to the masses?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Perhaps no-one else will have him.

He's a maverick- he doesn't really fit in anywhere. He's deeply conservative on some issues, very liberal on others.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

A libertarian by the sound of it.

In truth I haven't purchased a newspaper since the Guardian betrayed and outed a trans friend of mine courtesy of that nasty little git David Batty some years back.

Sound at all familiar?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't think he'd accept that label- or any other, really. That's what I like about him- he's a truly independent thinker.

I don't pay for papers either; I read them on line (because I'm a cheapskate).

I don't remember that case. And I had to google David Batty to find out who he is. I guess you mean the journo not the footballer.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

The very one.

Nasty piece of work!

[redatt.livejournal.com]

Apparently the Sun "hope this is the last time the State unwittingly subsidises the manslaughter of children".

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Well, unless they're foreign children and oil is at stake. Then the Sun will be right behind our Brave Boys, waving the flag.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell, that out-Mails the Mail.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

On a scale of scumminess the Sun beats the Mail, Please do not mention the Star either otherwise i will explode in expletives!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I never see the Star. I sometimes get to see the Sun in our local chippy.