Illustration by John Sadler www.johnsadlerillustration.com 

• IN your newspapers in the past week we have had articles on homelessness, air pollution versus green economic policy, hospital bureaucracy, the environmental damage of the disastrous £100billion HS2, internet exclusions of older folk, boycotts of specific countries, Grenfell Tower’s deadly combustible cladding, the cost-cutting exploitation of deregulation processes, and the paucity of accountability.

Does remind one of this: “No critique is as devastating as that which goes from irony to denunciation, rendering the entire capitalist system ironic and poking fun at the system’s apologists.” – Ludovico Silva: Marx’s Literary Style (2023 edition).

MIKE BOR
St George’s Fields, W2