![]() ![]() In Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, Robert De Niro’s character talks about how ‘someday a real rain will come,’ a rain that will wash all the scum – the corrupt politicians, the pimps, the crooked businessmen etc – off the streets. But this is only one example, a dribble of spit in a vast ocean of thick snotty phlegm. This has been happening for years, but, still, the two-facedness is extraordinary it doesn’t become any easier to swallow the third, fourth, fiftieth time. A while ago I learnt that the UK government has agreed to sell arms to countries that have been blacklisted for human rights violations, countries that – as in the case of Libya, for example – our politicians will then go on TV and condemn. Call it cowardice if you like, but I hate feeling angry or upset all the time. Well, the thing is, the truth of the world is too much for me these days. I often get asked why, as someone who appears to be politically switched on, I try and avoid the news media as much as possible. ![]()
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