Friday

A quick look at the papers and two statics hit me.

Firstly the gap between rich and poor is the widest since the 1960s and the gap between the wealthiest and poorest is the highest since Britain under Thatcher.

For Labour to hit it goals of halving child poverty by 2010 they would have the spend 4.5 billion pound a year. Very unlikely.

Is this the final nail in the coffin of New Labour?

Also t seems that the papers are eventually waking up to the truth about trash culture. Jonathan Jones writes

"If the left is ever to regain a voice in Britain it will now be necessary to face the truth about mass culture and its tyranny. Reality TV shows, celebrity "culture", inane pop groups and sport are not, and never have been, the hope of democracy"