Fay Young

Month: April 2011

  • Let them be afflicted

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    So, no more Mr Nice Guy then. David Cameron’s Britain looks set to become an unforgiving kind of place.  Welcome immigrants – but only the right kind of immigrants and not too many of them. And lets stop wasting tax on wasters – drug addicts, alcoholics, and the overweight – so they get off benefits…

  • Joining or dividing?

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    Does social media connect or separate communities? (With apologies to Ian Hamilton Finlay and Little Sparta) Distraction. I should be working but Googling alerts me to a poll on the Guardian’s Edinburgh blog.  Should the Old Odeon become a Wetherspoons pub? By the time I vote (no, of course) and leave a comment the story…