He's Back

Hello,
Mike Read is back at The Guardian! What do you mean who? The legendary broadcaster, author and producer of a truly remarkable musical of the life of Oscar Wilde and perhaps most noble of all the man who put London first by stepping aside to make way for Boris.

I am sure I speak for all Mike's fans or crews as we prefer to be known when I say welcome back Mike!

Cheerio

Puzzled

'Prisons are bursting at the seams, while crime rates appear to be falling. It doesn't make sense'

Hello,
I hate to come over all law and order on you all but is it possible that criminals being locked up might have something to do with crime rates falling? I came across the puzzling styatement above whilst pootling about the Guardian website.

I daresay it's all a bit of a short term fix, as far as I can tell prison appears to be a bit of a failure most of the time as a deterrent, a punishment or as a means of rehabilitation. Still it's encouraging stuff, all we need to do now is address the misuse of the prison system as a dumping ground for the mentally ill, the high rates of illiteracy, rampant prison drug abuse, overcrowding, gang violence and general mayhem that passes for prison life and make prison more effective. Unless of course there is some value in allowing violent, drug addled nutters to meet lots of other violent drug addled nutters from all over the country and carry on pretty much as they do outside.

Toodles

Misogyny at The Guardian

Hello,

'Look

You create a society where material wealth is the number one motivation sold to the population.

You drive into this population that "success" is to own a playstation3 or a VW golf or a nice chick (for which you will need HUGE amounts of cash money!)

The MSM and peer pressure constantly pushes the vision of a wonderful lifestyle full of consumer goods and beautiful people, enjoying a great life, full of trendy friends and lovely homes with loving families.

For some, this reflects real life and is achievable.'

But for many this dream world is NOT achievable.

Now this system expects those excluded from the party to accept their lot and keep quite.

HA!

This disparity between the haves and the have nots is the problem. Even with most "senseless" violent crime, the root cause is the anger of the injustice of this system.

If you are serious about cutting crime, END INEQUALITY and put an end to the massive gap between the rich and the poor.

An explanation for crime from The Guardian website- Am I alone in being worried that even liberals think women are property? I expect that's why women can be let off with murder if it was preceded by domestic violence after all it's no worse morally than a washing machine going on the blink. I'm also relieved to hear that domestic violence isn't as serious as we'd all been led to believe, after all the bitch is a man's property-it's no worse than doing a Basil Fawlty on an unreliable car. The way people go on you'd have thought it was human beings taking a kicking rather than mere consumer trinkets with tits . Did feminism actually happen or am I dreaming?

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