* Face veils. This is the big topic in the media this weekend. Personally I rush to the Sunday newspaper the Observer to read my horoscope. The best horoscope is in the Observer and its accuracy is uncanny. I throw the rest in the bin. Still back to veils apparently face veils worn by Muslim women means when you talk to them you can't see their faces. Apparently this makes some males (i.e. Jack Straw) uncomfortable. A pity more English women don't copy them on a Friday and Saturday night when their distorted drunken faces leer up at you from the gutter where they have stumbled. There are groups of civic minded individuals who actually make it their hobby to help these drink sodden wretches get home. I think leaving them where they are but putting veils on them would suffice. This would also prevent their vomit scented breath gusting in your face as their scream imprecations at passing revellers.

* The other item receiving attention was the plight of children in care and how the society had failed them. Let us face it they have no chance. Nobody in Britain wants to bring up their own children let alone someone else's. The English have never liked children very much and nothing has changed. Most parents work and the children are dropped off with carers, at creches or left with nanny (if money stretches to it), once of age they are left to the schooling system. It used to be the job of the schools to educate children, now they are expected to raise them as well.
In times gone by children were left with a household of the lower orders, if they were not seriously handicapped or imbeciles they were then reclaimed by the parents about the age of five. Given the rise of a new underclass it seems to me that this tradition should be revived.