From Strength to Strength

Those delightful Serco people are at it again. Having succeeded so brilliantly, thanks to the patronage of New Labour and its fellow Conservatives, in the areas of wog warehousing, child imprisonment and the tracking of non-existent felons, it seems a little unfair that the Home Office's favourite boot-boys should be euphemised in Britain's leading liberal newspaper as a "private housing provider." In Standard English, of course, this means that the company's concern is to deprive people of housing, without troubling itself overmuch with such pettifogging issues as whether the law permits it. In accordance with good business practice, the most vulnerable cockroaches are being ejected first, and it is to be hoped that this barnstorming entrepreneurialism will be duly rewarded with a contract to enforce the vagrancy laws.