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I thought so. Thanks for helping him get his story out.

I was reading it over breakfast, and by the time the Paragon Curriculm was mentioned, I had lost my appetite.

I've seen privatisations that just oozed corruption from every pore, but this... this is something else. That's not your run-of-the-mill brazenness anymore. Its a full-fledged disconnect, a parallel society of proverbial gated communities that has its own perception of reality.

Thanks to George Monbiot, I now consider waterboarding to be an appropriate cure for Owen Paterson's loss of contact with reality.

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I suppose a fiery rant every once in a while is also more acceptable than blowing up effigies of David Cameron in one's backyard. Not sure about puppets of Iain Duncan Smith though, those might be considered appropriate kindling.

Anyway, if I was involved in any popular social media, I'd be prone to make statements that might get me into trouble at some point. Mum's the word.

By the way, later this month, I'll be in the presence of people who are already on Uncle Sam's shit list.

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Eventually, you'll end up on the receiving end of rants of mine that are neither informative nor entertaining. Rage and anger is my very own recipe to prevent depression, so it's bound to happen sooner rather than later.

But hey, Russell Brand will be on this side of the Channel in early February, maybe that'll be enough to lift the spirits for a couple of months.

"It follows allegations they charged the government for tagging people who were either dead or in jail."

So, private companies in charge of electronic tagging were engaged in highly unethical behaviour. Who could it be, who could it be... who would have the standing to get these kinds of contracts, while being ruthless enough to pull up such a fraudulent scheme? Oh, I know: fucking Serco and G4S again.

If you ever decide to put these wankers, including Atos, on a barge, tug it into the middle of the northern Atlantic and leave it there, give us a call. I'd row the distance if it meant the end of those bastions of inhumanity.