VISITING England last
month persuaded me
that Canada is not the
only Country of the
Crazy. Angleterre takes
second place to none.

Black savages used to put
bones in their noses. In the
UK, white savages put rings
in their noses. How they
blow them I don’t know.
Perhaps they don’t.

You see the same sort of
thing here. But you see much
more of it there. It’s a sign of
the times, much like the fla-
gellants in medieval times.
Remind me to ask my social
worker about it.

Newsweek magazine sees
London as “the world’s
coolest city.” Cheers and
jeers all round.

I asked a lot of people
why madness reigns but they
could only shrug.

Consider what writer
Auberon Waugh has called
“the litigation culture.”

Everyone is suing every~
one else. School kids who
fai] their exams are suing the
_ teachers.

“Seventy failed pupils to
sue their schools,” (for giv-
ing them a bad education)
read the headline. If they
win, they could be awarded

anything up to $200,000

each.

One wonders whether the
teachers will counter-sue,
claiming the little brats did-

n’t try hard enough. Let’s
hope So.

Then there’s the teenager
who sued his school and got
over $60,000 after claiming
other kids had bullied him.
Shades of Tom Brown’s
school days. Shades of my

school days, when boys were
boys.

In Scotland, police who
were called out for the
Dunblane disaster claim they
were “traumatized” and that
they too deserve some funds.
Others want money on
account of stressful soccer
riots.

Shall we see British
troops suing the commanders
for making the wrong
moves? Or for not having the
rations delivered on time?
“The tea weren’t ot, Yer
Honor.”

Blame the welfare state.
Everyone is entitled to legal
aid, which in England, as in
Canada, applies to civil as
well as to criminal cases.

Legal aid cust the British
taxpayers $4 billion last year.

Then tnere’s the Church
of England, now the devil in
cassocks. But the devil has
always pretended to be holy.

- Beelzebub’s little helpers
at Southwark Cathedral host-
ed what one commentator
called “a sickening homosex-
val jamboree” for the
Lesbian and Gay Christian
Movement. Queers flocked
in from all ever — more than
2,000 of them.

Paul Johnson, the noted
journalist and historian, says
that the Church of England

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An Anglican priest even
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The doings of the trashy

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the sex lives of showbiz and
sports folk loom large.

Fourteen-yeas-old Prince
William shoots his first stag
in the Highiands. It is worth
gallons of ink, even in the
“better” press. “Should the
Prince shoot a stag?” It’s a
big national question.

Things wili get worse
before they get better, if they
ever get better.

The present managers of
this theatre of the absurd are
bad enough. But the Labor
Party kas a 37-point lead in
the polis and it will be
worse.

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