A brighter morning, with a slightly premature autumnal chill, and a very enjoyable run.
In the aftermath of the UK riots, some 2700 people have now been arrested. Many of them are facing very severe punishments as the government enthusiastically finds culprits for our amoral, selfish and dishonest society. Whole families of some rioters are being evicted from their homes. Someone who handled a stolen television is jailed for 18 months. Two people are jailed for 4 years for trying, unsuccessfully, to incite a riot via Facebook (ref).
In this surge of retributive “justice” it will be very interesting to see what happens to the Murdoch family, and to David Cameron’s ex-media adviser Andy Coulson, and to Cameron’s neighbour Rebekah Brooks, as it emerges that they lied comprehensively to the UK parliament when they denied knowledge of the phone hacking (ref).
We can probably assume that a prime minister who tries to incite warfare by selling arms to Middle Eastern despots, or indeed an ex-prime minister who led the UK into war on the basis of lies about weapons of mass destruction, will somehow be immune from this form of justice.
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