Female Trouble

However pointlessly harmful a policy may appear, the right-wing rabble can always find a way to hypertrophy the harm and pump up the pointlessness. If unemployment increases, social security must decrease; if Muslim-bashing is the vogue at home, Islamic extremists must be armed abroad; and if a tax is imposed on women's rights, the proceeds from that tax must pay to limit women's rights. Her Majesty's Government, which is nominally run by a coagulation of cold tea and sawdust masquerading as a woman, has imposed VAT on sanitary products, and will be awarding a chunk of the proceeds to a coathanger promotion charity. The strongest indication of its spiritual and intellectual affinity with Her Majesty's Government may be that the charity opposes the kind of sex education which might help to prevent the unwanted pregnancies whose termination the charity also opposes.