2025-12-02
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat ...
Please to put a penny in the old man's hat.
If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do ...
etc
Whilst not wishing for anyone to disregard the plight of old men down on their luck, it does seem to me that maybe this is not the advice most relevant to life in our current fractured times.
In the age of abortion on demand, "assisted dying" (voluntary or involuntary) for the old, even for those who, for preoccupation with their adversities and afflictions, real or imagined, no longer relate to the joys of life lived to the full ... that 'rabid old fascist' Nick Griffin fingers perhaps the most vital problem of our times.
Listen up.
