I despair. All this nonsense in the papers about Sam’s £300,000 bonus totally misses the point of everything we’ve been trying to explain for the past year.
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I despair. All this nonsense in the papers about Sam’s £300,000 bonus totally misses the point of everything we’ve been trying to explain for the past year. For the last time, all you Thatcherites at the back, wealth is not about money. Wealth is not City bonuses or share windfalls. Wealth is the smile on the face of a child who gets to see Daddy before bedtime. Wealth is the smell of organic chicken slow-roasting in the oven of an environmentally sound yet affordable starter home. Wealth is the solar panel on the roof of an inner-city state school, where middle-class families are happy for their children to mix with local street urchins (bless them!), safe in the knowledge that love will find a way to stop them mugging everyone for their mobile phones.
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