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Does that mean Cameron isn't the ba$tard I think he is? Please note, this comment is meant mainly as a comic interlude, before anybody starts arguing with it from a political point of view.

People need to be referred to food banks, normally by being given vouchers by a sensible and serious referring agency - social services, voluntary organisations, churches, faith organisations and the like. These are not given lightly and only in cases of genuine need. Are you like the large...

It could conceivably be a default position, but I don't see that it is flawed because all the things I mentioned I KNOW to be true. And it has nothing to do with moral superiority at all. That may be just your perception. It has purely and simply to do with caring about people, about trying to...

No need to apologise. And we will survive, to misquote Gloria Gaynor. And sometimes it can be strangely fulfilling challenging what you think is wrong....... because it matters. Having said that, I would also be the first to acknowledge that, if the result last Thursday had ended with an...

Fair enough. Nor would I, for what it's worth. Even though I'm and "uber caring demi-god", as described somewhere above.

Thanks. I shall print this post out and wear it as a sign that I am probably doing something right. In 62 years, I have never been described as arrogant before, so that is a real achievement.

We are generally as a whole a pretty happy family. But when the Government of the day seems intent on destroying everything you hold dear and have worked for all your life, then it is not just whingeing. My wife is the principal of an educational institution locally. Her life has been a constant...

Does it not occur to you that there just might be some connection between the two?

Thanks. It is because people care, and care desperately, about what they are doing.

Maybe it's not a question of being bitter, but about real concern of what might now happen. I am on the management committee of the main benefits advice centre in Southampton. We have already felt it necessary to send our advisers for suicide awareness training. There are going to be a further...