Call it prejudice or a chip on my shoulder – I call it common sense, but here’s my take: The admission that these people [used to?] use coke is a window into a bigger picture of their reality. What is for millions of people around the world the root cause of their suffering is to these privileged upper class shites a mere recreation, a good buzz that accompanies all the other privileges their wealth and social position affords them. Not even hiding it from their peers, they organise exclusive get-togethers in the most luxurious hotels where they can hire in all sorts of fleshly delights.
Fox Hunting: A Metaphor of Westminster Rule
Her support of the hunt helps us to understand her position on foodbanks. She is quite unmoved by over a million people in the UK replying on foodbanks – almost half of whom are children.
Day Off in the Drizzly South West of Scotland
Why, for example, would a people so utterly besotted with sugar and fatty foods – as many Scots have been (myself included) – reckon that only millionaires would slap a layer of caramel and chocolate atop their shortbread?
Driving the Snakes from Ireland
Perhaps if I lived out in the leafy suburbs of Dublin or out in the country with a couple of kids and a Red Setter I would be a fan of Saint Patrick’s Day. I don’t. I live in Dublin’s inner city and I am not a fan of the feast of Ireland’s patronal saint. … Continue reading Driving the Snakes from Ireland
