A lover of books (everything, well mostly), film, music (early music, classical, jazz, world and folk, especially music off the beaten track), history (especially ancient and medieval), good food and wine, travel, walking, art (looking at), listening to the radio, and sitting somewhere warm with a cold beer and espresso watching the world go by.
Friday, 7 January 2011
Cojones
My day was considerably brightened by the news that the former MP David Chaytor has been jailed for fraud and false accounting. He may well be released in May but, given that the defence used by the convicted felon was the preposterous one that MPs enjoy legal immunity by virtue of parliamentary privilege, this is very good news indeed. Proves too that there is still life in the old British democratic dog yet. All we need now is for the coalition government, sorry, 'A Plague on Both their Houses', to find their cojones and do something about the obscenity of banks paying billions of pounds in bonuses to their workers. I fear however that this will never happen. And the government is once again seeking to impose the business ethics and working practices of the private sector on the public sector because, it is argued, they are both more efficient and inherently superior. Explain that to me, please?
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