They were “lower than vermin”. Yikes! The actor Michael Sheen quoted him in a recent passionate speech. How dare they dismantle our NHS? “It’s shameful! Besmirching! Get out! Get out!”
I can only agree, but have hitherto been a bit queasy about this sort of language, this passionate intensity. Didn’t Yeats warn us that “the worst” are full of it? Wasn’t that Mr Hitler chock full of it? Aren’t things always more complex? A patrician impartiality is surely more seemly, temperate, mature, more the English way.
Well, I’ve had it with all that. I’ve gone simple. My default position is raving dotard.
Moral bankruptcy seems to rule. Complexity is just an alibi for corruption, obfuscation. Things have become x-ray clear. The flash bulb goes off, the red mist descends and I go off on one. It goes roughly thus...
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