Archive for January, 2009

Last week, I wrote about the seemingly perverse decision by an appeal court not to cancel the two million pounds debts a compulsive gambler had run up with his bookmakers over a six month period after it failed to keep its agreement with him not to accept bets from him placed over the telephone.
Hot on the heels of that decision, as well those of Morris dancers and the incandescent light-bulb, it seems this week that it is the turn of common sense to become the latest victim of this country’s unstoppable slide into becoming just another impoverished and deracinated outlying region of the EU.

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