Edward Trunk Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Spot-on article by Peter Oborne in todays "Telegraph"http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100100708/the-moral-decay-of-our-society-is-as-bad-at-the-top-as-the-bottom/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Yes a good article quoted by sweet 17 in http://www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/22/2593536/ShowPost.aspx#2593536 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Silly boy! Pay attention! [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Quite so!Keep up at the back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachapapa Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 [quote user="Edward Trunk"]Spot-on article by Peter Oborne in todays "Telegraph" http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100100708/the-moral-decay-of-our-society-is-as-bad-at-the-top-as-the-bottom/[/quote] All the trouble of activating your link to find that I had already seen it yesterday evening.On the technical side regarding the basic courtesy of posting active links would you perhaps give him a dunces cap or kick him in the "ghoulies" as appropriate.http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100100708/the-moral-decay-of-our-society-is-as-bad-at-the-top-as-the-bottom/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 [quote user="NormanH"]Quite so!Keep up at the back...[/quote][:D] Methinks you well attired of late for a barrel dweller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Even a barrel dweller can dream... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Why is our barrel dweller now adopting Charles I as his avatar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Is that who that is, Charles I! I know very little about him apart from the fact that he is the father of Charles II? Now, have I got that right, Wools?[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 I don't think that's Charlie I - for one thing, didn't he sport a tash? The most significant thing I know about him is that Cromwell and Co chopped his bonce off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 It is John Locke... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Makes rather more sense, Norman! You didn't strike me as the Charlie I type.[:D]I do find these portraits tough as most of these guys wore the same wigs so they all looked the same, especially when that small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 "People not perceiving the Money to be gone, are apt to be jealous one of another; and each suspecting anothers inequality of Gain to rob him of his share, every one will be imploying his skill, and power, the best he can, to retrieve it again, and to bring Money into his Pocket in the same plenty as formerly. But this is but scrambling amongst our selves, and helps no more against our want, than the pulling of a short Coverlet will, amongst Children, that lye together, preserve them all from the Cold. Some will starve, unless the Father of the Family provide better, and enlarge the scanty Covering. This pulling and contest is usually between the Landed-man and the Merchant. For the Labourer's share, being seldom more than a bare subsistence, never allows that body of Men time or opportunity to raise their Thoughts above that, or struggle with the Richer for theirs, (as one common Interest,) unless when some common and great Distress, uniting them in one universal Ferment, makes them forget Respect, and emboldens them to carve to their Wants with armed force: And then sometimes they break in upon the Rich, and sweep all like a deluge. But this rarely happens but in the mal-administration of neglected or mis-manag'd Government." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 So everyone in UK is pulling on the same blanket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 A 'scanty Covering' anyway..[:)]If the News of the World were still in business I could believe it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianagain Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 A brief primer for all those unfamiliar with John Locke (excuse the language)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-buzVjYQvYBrian (again) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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