(^14) DAILY MIRROR FRIDAY 30.08.
DM1ST
IT’S ONLY ABOUT POWER
You have to give the Tories full marks for
ruthlessness. They award it to themselves
anyway.
In their pitiless pursuit of power, no lie
is too blatant, no abuse of power is too
great, no subterfuge is too deep,
no trick is too dirty and no
deceit is too shameless.
I could go on. In fact, I think
I will. No rule, no law, no
constitution, no principle, no
citizens’ rights, no democratic
norms and no sovereignty must stand in
the way of Alexander de Pfeffel Johnson.
The Prime Minister is willing to drag the
Queen into his sordid Brexit-or-bust
melodrama, trash Parliament, suborn the
civil service and browbeat the
electorate to get what he
wants.
To paraphrase Hugh
Gaitskell, this gutter politician
will lie and lie and lie again to
save the power he loves.
Childhood’s now
a lonely world of
lost innocence...
IT’S a fair bet my daugh-
ters were the last genera-
tion to enjoy a traditional
childhood.
They grew up free from the
pressures of social media
harassment, celeb culture,
naked selfies, gender confu-
sion and endless school
testing.
Throw in the fathomless
idiocy of Love Island, end-of-
the-world Greta Thunberg
and internet porn, and you
have a perfect cocktail of
despair for today’s youngsters.
No wonder the Children’s
Society reports a “national
scandal” of rapidly increasing
child unhappiness.
In the long holiday, our girls went out
in the morning and came back in the
evening. They went where they liked and
did what they liked.
Just like my time. As lads, we ran wild,
summer and winter, in games we made
up. We re-fought the Second World War
with guns made from
wood and nails. We
skated down pit
stacks on bits of
conveyor belt.
The girls
weren’t in
our Railway
Terrace gang. I
noticed them occasionally,
skipping and playing
hopscotch. Lasses came
much later, and if somebody
had mentioned pornography,
I’d have thought it was a
branch of geography.
Innocence, all lost. Enough
to make you weep for today’s
younger generation.
Almost a quarter of a
million UK kids are “unhappy
with their lives as a whole”.
They’re worried about
crime, the environment,
school, personal appearance,
friends, the future – and life at
home. That’s the worst.
Home was always the safe
refuge from all the bad things.
Not any more. The bedroom is now a
This-and-That-Gram battleground of
hatred, envy and bullying, where
relationships wither and die before they
can bloom.
The Children’s Society believes that the
answer is government monitoring of
11-18-year-olds as they go through
school. That’s far too late – the damage
is done by then.
And politicians are not the right people
to mature the nation’s children. That’s the
job of parents, and of young people
themselves, if they can acquire an inner
toughness to cope with the commercial-
ised nightmare of modern life.
NO ESCAPE Web kids
‘‘Mention
pornography
and I’d think it
was a branch
of geography
From bad boy of cricket to national hero in one
innings is a great coup for Ben Stokes. My
daughter Josephine was there to watch his
one-man Ashes victory, as she was in 1981
for the genius of Botham. It’s Sir Ian and it
should be Sir Ben. Stokesy also saved
Yorkshire from financial disaster, with
£4million takings for the “Miracle of
Headingley 2019”. Cricket is important,
but tha mun nivver forget t’brass.
Telling it like it is...
PAUL
ROUTLEDGE
HEADLINE:^
“Optimists
Really Do Live
Longer.” I should
bloody well hope
so too.
shocked to see the ex-SAS
man – who is allergic to bee
stings – reacting so badly.
He added: “It was bizarre...
the survivalist needing to be
treated with an EpiPen.”
Treasure Island begins on
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by boat for the first day’s
filming of Channel 4’s new
Treasure Island series.
Grylls tried to carry on but
took a worrying turn for the
worse. Medics calmed the
allergy with an EpiPen.
Contestant Mano Shan-
muganathan, a Belfast
neurosurgeon, said he was
A BEE sting knocked out
TV hard man Bear Grylls.
It was feared the survival
expert had potentially fatal
anaphylactic shock in a
remote area of the Pacific.
He was stung while taking
a new batch of adventurers
Bee clobbers Bear
Medics’ dramatic dash to save TV hard man
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