rockyracoon wrote:

Most definitely a tempest in a teacup but I can't help wondering if the Brits aren't having a wee sort of moral/cultural crisis at the moment. When one looks at their recent attempts to introduce legislative imperatives that will create a core British identity, you kind of get a glimmer that all is not well in the collective body. There seems to a a void at the center of their civilisation where there are no defining boundaries or set of rules upon which any given citizen can identify and react to.

A good court jester identifies the anomolies in a society's rules and values and plays on them; often to the detriment of the jester. These two clowns were not testing the bounds of society or highligting the inconsistencies, imo, but were acting the maggot in order to earn their daily gold tinged crust.

Somebody mentioned the Congo. Is it true that China has significant business interest in this area?

Lenny Bruce they certainly were not.

Should we open a thread on the DR of the Congo?

cactus flower wrote:

rockyracoon wrote:

Most definitely a tempest in a teacup but I can't help wondering if the Brits aren't having a wee sort of moral/cultural crisis at the moment. When one looks at their recent attempts to introduce legislative imperatives that will create a core British identity, you kind of get a glimmer that all is not well in the collective body. There seems to a a void at the center of their civilisation where there are no defining boundaries or set of rules upon which any given citizen can identify and react to.

A good court jester identifies the anomolies in a society's rules and values and plays on them; often to the detriment of the jester. These two clowns were not testing the bounds of society or highligting the inconsistencies, imo, but were acting the maggot in order to earn their daily gold tinged crust.

Somebody mentioned the Congo. Is it true that China has significant business interest in this area?

Lenny Bruce they certainly were not.

Should we open a thread on the DR of the Congo?

Yeah, a Congo thread might be very intereting at the moment. The UK and France have minions over there also. I'm sure there are angles regarding the natural wealth of these countries and regions that are well worth exploring in a geo-politcal context.

Now it's Jeremy Clarkson's turn to put his foot in it.

Sky news

Clarkson is always putting his foot in it. I loved when he said that identity theft was a fallacy and to demonstrate it he put all his published his bank account details in his column in The Times. In his next statement he discovered someone had signed him up to a host of monthly charitable contributions by direct debit .