The kiss of death?

Plus ca change.....
as Voltaire's disillusioned Candide said, 'We must cultivate our own garden.'

I felt very sad when my formerly idealistic son said to me 'mum, the country's f*****, the world's f*****, the only thing to do is to create a little space for yourself and try to get out of this life whatever you can.

I couldn't find an argument. Is this the world we are passing on to our children and grandchildren?

Stop the world I want to get off.

Politics - utterly dreadful and getting worse.

The rest of that quotation is pretty apposite to the present day. I think it goes:

'Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
The best lack all conviction
While the worst are full of passionate intensity.'

It's that phrase 'passionate intensity' that, more than any other makes me shudder.

"Things fall apart, the centre will not hold.." Yeats

I get the feeling that everything is falling apart - the hell in a handcart anyone want a lift?

I thought this was interesting in the Telegraph. I love the Groucho Marx quote.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9362656/U-turns-make-even-David-Cameron-wonder-what-this-Government-is-for.html

Apart from failing to find an excuse for not appearing with him, her biggest mistake was trying to patronise Jeremy Newsnight. Gideon hadn't properly informed the rest of the Cabinet and other colleagues, let alone given this poor Chloe creature any specific line to follow. He is a thoroughly egregious person and a lousy Chancellor. (Who was the last one who was any good?)