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| Abusive music teachers, cruel nuns, scoundrels in construction | Abusive music teachers, cruel nuns, scoundrels in construction |
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| No wonder I feel a bit sick in the mornings nowadays. I wake up and try to select a couple of things to worry about, but I'm spoilt for choice. It's a banquet of horrors out there. I used to think there were just a few big crooks in a few places, but now they are everywhere, gambling in the banks, messing with our food, fiddling expenses in government, dodging taxes. Scoundrels run the construction industry, oligarchs run sport, Trump runs Scotland, Gove runs schools – into the ground. Everything's turned grubby: our healthcare, our food, our sport, buildings, banks and churches – fouled up by these creatures. The lid seems to have come off and the rats are pouring out of the box, as if the Pied Piper's going the wrong way. | No wonder I feel a bit sick in the mornings nowadays. I wake up and try to select a couple of things to worry about, but I'm spoilt for choice. It's a banquet of horrors out there. I used to think there were just a few big crooks in a few places, but now they are everywhere, gambling in the banks, messing with our food, fiddling expenses in government, dodging taxes. Scoundrels run the construction industry, oligarchs run sport, Trump runs Scotland, Gove runs schools – into the ground. Everything's turned grubby: our healthcare, our food, our sport, buildings, banks and churches – fouled up by these creatures. The lid seems to have come off and the rats are pouring out of the box, as if the Pied Piper's going the wrong way. |
| Or perhaps I'm being a bit mean to rats. They are doing all right. They must have a fairly successful social order. I bet they don't make their elders lie in shitty nests. They don't have billionaire startup clubs, sub-sub-sub contractors and PFIs. Or DJs, priests and music teachers, never mind abusive ones. They don't have cruel nuns running slave-labour laundries, an internet stuffed with porn, gun lobbies, or rendition, or rush into other people's wars. | Or perhaps I'm being a bit mean to rats. They are doing all right. They must have a fairly successful social order. I bet they don't make their elders lie in shitty nests. They don't have billionaire startup clubs, sub-sub-sub contractors and PFIs. Or DJs, priests and music teachers, never mind abusive ones. They don't have cruel nuns running slave-labour laundries, an internet stuffed with porn, gun lobbies, or rendition, or rush into other people's wars. |
| How are the rest of us staggering on? "I think you'll find that we're not," says Fielding grimly. He hasn't felt cheery since September. But I don't like to be too downhearted. Last night at 1am the dog and I were woken by a scary pneumatic-drill noise seeming to come from upstairs, then a tremendous BANG! As I phoned the police, I spotted the firemen outside. An electric cable had blown up under the pavement. By dawn it was being mended and a few hours later everything was safe and working again. What efficiency. Concerned neighbours rang to check we hadn't been blown to hell. | How are the rest of us staggering on? "I think you'll find that we're not," says Fielding grimly. He hasn't felt cheery since September. But I don't like to be too downhearted. Last night at 1am the dog and I were woken by a scary pneumatic-drill noise seeming to come from upstairs, then a tremendous BANG! As I phoned the police, I spotted the firemen outside. An electric cable had blown up under the pavement. By dawn it was being mended and a few hours later everything was safe and working again. What efficiency. Concerned neighbours rang to check we hadn't been blown to hell. |
| So most of us are perfectly agreeable, though a lot of us are struggling at the bottom. Sadly the scum has risen to the top. I hope there's time to scrape it off. | So most of us are perfectly agreeable, though a lot of us are struggling at the bottom. Sadly the scum has risen to the top. I hope there's time to scrape it off. |
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