...sometimes it's just beyond absurdity.
Here we are in Britain with a number of young people stabbed to death by other youngsters this summer, a steadily rising rate of family break-up, large numbers of boys and girls growing up without fathers, our Army committed to two wars neither of which seems likely to end soon or to be achieving anything at all, worryingly low academic standards - and standards of everyday speech and spelling and grammar and general knowledge and communication and social skills - a drugs habit afflicting our youth, plans to abort more and more of the next generation....
...and the headline in today's newspaper?
'Fall in number of women getting top jobs'.
We're supppsed to be sleepless with worry about that, I suppose?
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The words, "fiddle", "Rome" and "burns", come to mind.
At least "The N.H.S. is improving", or so the actors with silly grins on the new and overly-large plasma screen T.V. in my doctors' surgery delighted in informing me on Tuesday - "ad nauseam"!
Joanna, I generally enjoy your blog, but I cannot agree with this sentiment. I do agree the situation with young people is extremely worrying, but the advance of women in professional and business life has been something to celebrate. If more women were in leadership positions some of the other messes to which you refer might also be abated. Not sure about the wars, either. Iraq was a hard choice and I am not sure it was a just war. Afghanistan, though, is absolutely essential - if it was allowed to fall to the Taliban the entire world would be confronted with unprecedented terrorism because it would have a vast, protected haven, right beside an unstable nuclear power as well. Hannah Davies, Melbourne Australia
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