THE WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE

THE WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE THE WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE As something terribly important happened in Kemp Town just recently, the world outside our little bubble insisted on not becoming any saner. After all of the hype and hyperbole, Barack Obama, the man who is going to save the world, managed, despite a hint of practice, to get the words wrong. Politicians generally are keeping standards high with some of Barack’s appointees having to turn down the proffered positions due to tax irregularities, and a former Tory MP in court charged with perjury in a libel trial. Simply think about that one. Despite describing Hammas, the democratically elected government of that bit of the world, as Militants, Terrorists and Fundamentalists, the BBC and Sky will not swerve from impartiality. British workers have found out that, not only is it perfectly legal for employers to overlook the local and qualified unemployed for cheaper labour from elsewhere, but it is illegal for those British workers to protest against such a state of affairs. This is the Democracy we hold so close and regularly fight in the name of. The Democracy that gave the world eight years of George W. Freedom of Speech is one of the central tenets of this great democracy; just ask Carol Thatcher. That arch satirist, Paris Hilton, again wowed the crowds by answering, ‘Gordon Ramsey’ when quizzed about the identity of the Prime Minister. Of Britain. As the largest snow-falls for 18 years tumbled from the skies, schools were roundly criticized after closing for two days. Mainly by litigation lawyers. It has been announced that, last year, over 8,000 deaths were directly attributable to alcohol. That is at least 1,500 less than died on the roads. Even the smallest comment about Israel’s current conduct in the tinderbox of the Middle East will offend someone. As credit becomes even more crunchy, all manner of people are queuing up to compete in an ‘how bad it’s going to get’ game of doom prophecy. Politicians, bankers, economists and et cetera. The only thing these people have in common, interestingly enough, is that none of them will be affected by it all to any real extent. Even the Wags are doing their bit with one young lady cutting back to only two hairdresser visits a week and doing her own nails. Former bank leaders have been hauled before a Select Committee to apologize and explain. They apologized with all the contrition of Smackheads and blamed everyone else. Strangely, both The Sun and The Sunday Times recently ran whole pages of features on how terrible the environment is going to become. It is all too awful, especially when Jeremy Clarkson insults Gordon Brown only to later refute the irrefutable bits.