Lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living

Ironically…

… this article is incredibly stupid. So stupid, in fact, that it makes the article next to it, Martin Kettle’s condemnation of the lack of “consensus” in US politics, look almost coherent. But not quite, obviously.

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