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William Donaldson

Even Mahatma Gandhi – hardly a comfortable character – always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.

William Donaldson

Avarice is patriotic!

avarice, patriotism

William Donaldson

Carlton, Sydney (1949-), painter and decorator. Those who argue that bestiality should be treated with understanding had a setback in 1998 when Carlton, a married man from Bradford, was sentenced to a year in prison for having intercourse with a Staffordshire bull terrier, named Badger. His defence was that Badger had made the first move. ‘I can’t help it if the dog took a liking to me,’ he told the court. This was not accepted.

dogs, painters-and-decorators

William Donaldson

drugs, hard. Under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, the law was changed in the United Kingdom to ensure that the production and supply of dangerous drugs should henceforth be in the hands of criminal organisations. Some people have argued that this is not an ideal arrangement.

William Donaldson

Later the place was as deserted as Malcolm Muggeridge’s Christmas party of fellow intellectuals.

christmas, malcolm-muggeridge

William Donaldson

I read recently that 60% of all drugs on the black-market had been put there by the police. No sooner are drugs seized, it seems, than they are recycled onto the streets by the arresting officers! I know our Leader, Mrs Thatcher, is in favour of private enterprise, but this is the free market gone mad!…Yours for the Market Economy Within Reasonable Limits!

capitalism, tories