Wednesday, January 7, 2009

THE GREAT LIGHTBULB BOLLOCKS

Going past a newstand just now I glimpsed the Daily Mail and was reminded once again - with shattering clarity - that I inhabit a completely different universe from Daily Mail readers - or at least a completely different universe from the one which Daily Mail journalists think their readers inhabit.

40 kids dead in a UN school in Gaza and what does the bloody Daily Mail lead on?

THE GREAT LIGHTBULB REVOLT
Robbed of the right to buy traditional lightbulbs, millions are clearing shelves of the last supplies

What a complete and utter heap of total bollocks!

"Robbed of the right to buy" - There is no right to buy anything. Is the Mail campaigning for one? If so, it would be contrary to its historical opposition to expanding human rights. For one thing buying something is governed by the "laws" of supply and demand, and if there is a right to buy everything is the Mail campaigning for the right to buy sofas which explode into flames when touched by a cigarette, or cars which do not protect their passengers in the event of an accident?

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