State of decay?

[matgb]

This pretty much sums up the reactions of large swathes of talking head commentators over the last week:



When I look back to what I've read about previous riots in London over the centuries, when I look at corruption scandals or financial collapses, it really does put into perspective how lucky we are and have been.

I mean, seriously, riots across all of London, no one very few killed^[1] and the London murder rate actually goes down?. Total deaths nationally five, including three men run down by a car.

The bankers are finally brought down, not by deliberate deceit, not by active fraud or theft, but by incompetence and optimism.

Parliament is brought into disrepute in a corruption scandal. What over? A few grand on a duck house, a few grand over claimed on a mortgage, etc. Compare that to many other countries today? Compare that to corruption scandals in the past in the UK?

Moral decay? We've never had it so good.

Scary, isn't it?

ETA: Apparently there's been a death in Ealing that I had overlooked, the post is amended to reflect that.

Comments

[watervole]

I think I agree. This is a damn good country to live in.
Would comment more, but the comment box vanishes behind the tags.
I can't read what I'm posting if it's any longer than this line...

[matgb]

That's very, very weird, and shouldn't be happening-can I ask what browser you're using, as I can hopefully fix it if I find what's causing it (the appearance of the layout is entirely self coded, but I taught myself how to do it, so I've probably missed something).

[watervole]

I use Chrome.
All the boxes at the right hand side overlap the comment box. Some are transparant (like the 'expand cut tags' box) some are not.

[matgb]

OK, I shall do some intense testing with Chrome, both columns are supposed to have their own space and never overlap at all, I suspect I need to declare a width for the comment box specifically but that's just a guess.

time to download and install the latest Chrome then. Thanks for letting me know.