A hilarious article by Peter Hitchens, brother of the egregious Christopher,

[Joe Chi Minh]

in today's Mail on Sunday in the UK. Well, it was the first paragraph that was hilarious:

"I often joke about losing the will to live at Tory conferences, but on Tuesday morning, after just one day of it, I woke with severe chest pains.

It turned out that there was nothing wrong with him, so the conference must have been even more horrendous than usual.

Another classic, from his website:
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/ :

"I am reminded of the story about a now-famous playwright who started out as a journalist and who applied for a job as a reporter on a major London newspaper. He was called in for interview, and they said to him "You say in your application that you are interested in politics. What is the name of the current Home Secretary?" He didn't know, and replied "I said I was interested in politics, not obsessed with it". He didn't get the job, which may have seemed hard at the time, but I believe he has got over it now."

[PDJane]

1. Interesting...........

Peter is much saner than his brother.

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. Yes. He often makes good points about the degeneracy of our society,

and the cause of it, which ultimately is the Government of the day - whether national or local.

I'm always amazed by the people who will argue about it, as if it were a matter open to dispute, but it's a manifestly observable fact. You only have to read a daily newspaper ANY single day in the year, and you will read horror stories that would have defied belief even thirty years ago.