With promises of public punishments and pre-crime powers for landlords, Sunak and Starmer are both cheered by a press that delights in cruelty.
As an aside, but related, I was reminded the other day that the police in my area basically run the drugs trade here together with the big dealers. The state's monopoly on violence goes unchecked and branches into other, er, trades.
All just so utterly, tediously predictable- they could at least try to put some imagination into it all..
My years of kidhood are well behind me, but I'd be thinking that I might as well be caught for a proper "crime" than this sort of idiocy...
As an aside, but related, I was reminded the other day that the police in my area basically run the drugs trade here together with the big dealers. The state's monopoly on violence goes unchecked and branches into other, er, trades.
All just so utterly, tediously predictable- they could at least try to put some imagination into it all..
My years of kidhood are well behind me, but I'd be thinking that I might as well be caught for a proper "crime" than this sort of idiocy...