Do You Give a Monkey's?

An important story about a peer being paid to introduce an arms lobbyist. A personal aside here, I remember when the lowly Doug Hoyle won the Warrington by-election in the early Thatcher years and even then I thought he was, despite being the Labour Party winner, an oleaginous, horrible little man, that was my knee-jerk reaction as a Labour supporter. I say this as only a digression. We have our priorities, a labour Peer whoring himself, as Guido terms it, is important, maybe even something about cannabis might be important. But the most important story is buried on buried on page 9 of the Guardian



The edge of oblivion: conservationists name 25 primates about to disappear



That should be the lead, we'll always have hand wringing about drugs until the lick spittle religious puritan bureaucrats concede there's nothing wrong with enjoying yourself. There'll always be a whiff of corruption lingering in the corridors of Parliament. We won't always have the primates. These we have to save, it's a line to be drawn. All species must be protected, the relentless consumption of the earth must be stopped. People have to think about everything they do has an effect and people should turn their eyes away from celebrities, houses and all the distractions of the capitalist consumer heaven that we live in and look at the world and do something to save it. The governments of the countries where these forests are being hacked down must be contacted and forced into action to save these primates. A letter for a primate, or instead of a gorilla a washing machine?



The Guardian interweb site briefly got it right