EVERY MAN HAS HIS BREAK POINT (via ef brown)

The Great Escape, or how I finally shook off the state (Harry Mount, 25/08/2003, Daily Telegraph)

Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last. I have finally slipped free of any form of state control. Transport, health, education, the day at work, the evening at play - the Government's great, big, dirty paw no longer messes with my day-to-day existence and my life now rattles happily along, on smooth, privately-run, rails.

Everything turns up on time. Everyone I deal with is polite. If anything goes wrong, it's only ever my fault. And, what's more, this pampered world costs less than the battered version that the state provides.

The final breaking of the bonds came when I did my back in last weekend playing tennis.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 25, 2003 11:23 PM