Help the aged. Really, someone should help the aged. By this I don’t mean the poor pensioners who’ve been hit by the cut to their winter fuel allowance. Nor do I mean the Baby Boomers who are unfairly maligned for having bought a house when it was affordable to do so, and have held on to it ever since. I mean that generation who came of age in the 1960s and are still trapped in that decade.
Like the callow youngsters they march with, they speak in a sloganeering, agitprop language befitting of the student union
This was in evidence yesterday when the MPs Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell agreed to be interviewed by police following a pro-Palestinian rally in London on Saturday. The former Labour leader, 75, and former shadow chancellor, 73, voluntarily attended a police station after what the Metropolitan Police says was a coordinated effort by organisers to breach conditions imposed on the event (this was denied by the organisers, who accused the Metropolitan Police of heavy-handed tactics).
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