Thanks very much, Tim & Uilleam, for your kind words of encouragement. The way our country's led is criminal, and the manner in which our rights have been stripped away, stretching back as far even as William the Bastard's usurpation of the Anglo-Saxon throne, and on through the land rights of the 18th. C, the persecution of the Luddites, Levellers and Diggers, to the increasingly oppressive labour laws of the 19th, leading all the way to our modern policing and anti-terror bills, is immoral. Phew! I get carried away. I'm an old-school anarchist, a libertarian socialist, an advocate of revolution so please pardon me my spleen. To paraphrase the mighty Bill Hicks, if we don't evolve past our current mode of social organisation, we're doomed.
Crikey, i need a soothing poultice, or powder, or whatnot, now!

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Martin, I’m sure you’re aware the word “rant” is sometimes (but rarely) used in WOL comments in a derogatory or perjorative way, usually by those with nothing useful to say!

Cambridge English Dictionary. “rant: to speak, write or shout in a loud, uncontrolled, or angry way, often saying confused or saying silly things”.

I see nothing silly, confused, or uncontrolled in what you’ve written. It is justifiably angry and loud in tone. If poetry be the food of love, write on, out loud, I say.

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Cue the howls of "Oh no, how will we manage if we upset the status quo?" When what we effectively have had for years is anarchy and unaccountability in government, whilst we, the plebs are forced to toe the line.

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If this is a footloose rant, then "may I have more please"
Excellent, Martin.

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