From the Sunday Telegraph we learn that a man who complained to doctors at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington of severe shoulder pains was ejected at 4 am because he groaned too loudly. Later the unfortunate patient was charged with causing a disturbance. The kindly magistrate dismissed the charge but informed the unemployed Mohammad Arbab: You may have been in pain but try to sutter in sience like many or us do.
Also suffering, apparently, is Roger Daltrey, singer with The Who. He recently flew in to London to launch what the press described as 'a blistering attack on me Labour goverament nave usteart ed a load more dollars for them to squander', he raved. Perhaps he should join up with well known guitarist Eric Clapton, who recently urged an audience in Birmingham to support the 'prophet' Enoch Powel. both are understood to be expon ents of 'progressive' pop. Of course there's progressive and progressive...
Talking of definitions, the new Websters dictionarv describes Marxism as 'a theory and practice of socialism including the labour theory of value, dialectical mater ialism, the class struggle and dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of a classless society. The new Concise Oxford Dictionary prefers: 'Political and economic theory .. advocating abolition of private property, and state provision for all.' And their definition of objective?