The times we try to live in: a wide-ranging rant (but don’t worry, there’s humour in there as well)
I give in to the torrential and near-continual rainfall this summer. I give in to the inevitable liquifying of my brain owing to the bickering between the only two parties we ever see elected to government, both of them mediocre headline-chasers, uninspiring and with memberships hungry for power for power’s sake, keen to bring in yet more control freak policies, and to fuck over those least capable of withstanding being fucked over by anyone. I give in to the newspapers, TV and radio that have collectively decided it’s time for a Second Great Depression because it promises great opportunities for photographers to snap starving waifs in the city centre of Bradford (which, we’ve been told, by a misnamed think tank, should be emptied of human life as quickly as possible, with the refugees rehomed by uncharacteristically generous and practical-minded Oxford and Cambridge dons).
tags: Africa, anger, chavs, China, Conservatives, credit cards, debt, depression, estate agents, Georgia, global warming, inflation, Labour, mortgages, Olympics, opinion polls, politics, rain, rant, recession, Russia, SAD
