And all to sell more of what? Walker's crisps, would you believe – potato chips – that ubiquitous doyen of junk food overloaded with fat to encourage atherosclerosis and obesity, and salt which greatly assists in the development of high blood pressure. According to Sainsbury’s, you can’t have sport without crisps. The world – and the abject effrontery of the retail sector – just get gets madder and madder.
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On a totally unrelated note, I’m becoming aware that there’s a movement in so-called western democracies for the leading politicians to become gradually more right wing in their policies and attitudes. One of the favoured targets is the practice of public protest against perceived wrongs. Protesters are being vilified, some are being arrested and even sent to prison, and the groups to which they belong are occasionally being proscribed. Don’t they ever take note of history and see that many of the basic rights and freedoms which we now take for granted were brought to fruition by public protest? Don’t the women politicians on the right who rail against protesters for committing minor acts of sabotage and causing some disruption in day-to-day business ever consider that the suffragettes who enabled them to hold political office were treated the same way, and that we now regard them as heroes?
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A man on YouTube says I should keep on writing a blog (well, implied I suppose) because words have power. But they must be the right words because it isn’t the words themselves which are powerful, but the individual letters. OK, I’ll try to remember. (It can be very difficult to know what you’re supposed to do and not supposed to do in this life if you’re the sort who feels the need to break ranks.)
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