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At the chalkface: Another modest proposal

We 13-year-olds learned how to shoot a real gun, kill a man with the side of your hand or string a piano wire across a path to garrote any wandering Hun. It worked. We saw none.

It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, when they see the streets crowded with our troubled adolescents, who are, more often than not, ill-favoured of countenance and bereft of civility.

Moreover, they are commonly fatherless, feckless, hopeless, homeless, insensible with skunk, fatigued with indolence, blotto with Stellas, fractious with daggers, or incapacitated with a morbid obesity and barely able to totter along our pavements. An utter shambles. Something must be done.

Mrs May’s government is at last going to do it – with the fierce, traditional Kipper values of unthinking patriotism and discreet racism.

Michael Fallon, Minister for War, has a Plan. Get the army in. Get guns into state schools. Get a military ethos.

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