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I'm reading even more drivel from these RW lunatics from the Daily Mail (betrayals, Marxist revolutions, 'pigs flying above Downing Street' lol) and was amused last night by the bullish antics of a bbc QT guest called Isabel Oakeshot, another Daily Mail prat, educated at Gordonstoun and clearly a 'toerag to boot' and a fox hunter, who classes herself as a fervent brexiteer - her shit, brazen dialogue more or less confirmed that fact - not 'getting her way' and 'throwing the rattle out of the pram' - priceless to see these dangerous bastards squirming in their seats and screaming 'foul'!!

I think a lot of what Isabel Oakeshott says is to be controversial because people who say controversial things in the media or on TV programmes get talked about more than those who don't. What I can't work out is how can someone be so callous and not have any compassion for other people.

Essentially, people of that ilk pride themselves on being "hard-headed" and "unsentimental" and "able to take tough decisions" (for which, read "decisions which will land other people in the shit"). And the thing is, unfortunately there are situations - generally in very, very bad times - when that kind of mentality can prove useful or necessary. However, the vast majority of the time it comes across as, at best, a patronising and paternalist "mummy/daddy knows best" attitude reinforced by an ignorance of the realities of everyday life for ordinary people. At worst, when people like this start to view their hard-headed objectivity as a virtue in itself, surrounding themselves with others who think the same way and competing with one another to prove who can be the most ruthlessly clinical and mathematical about things... well, it's not hard to see how compassion and ethics can fly out the window.