Irony Bypass
Our newsagent delivered the Telegraph today, they do this once in a way as acruel and unusual punishment to remind me to go and pay the bill. It works.

The Telegraph are running a gambling game based on the stock market. Readers have only to match their lucky numbers against selected numbers on the stock market to win 5000 pounds.

Many people read the Telegraph, including me, but there is a driving ideology binding the people who produce the newspaper and the majority of its readers. They think they are a cut above Sun readers and their version of Bingo is for people who follow the stock market.

They have no sense of irony. Their ideology is the ideology of capitalism, the market is the answer to all of society's problems. Those number on the stock market pages represent the lives and livelihoods of millions.

For us a few points up or down mean the difference between having a future or a livelihood or finding ourselves like the Rover families finding they have been betrayed and robbed. For the speculator those figures only mean their gamble has come off or it hasn't.

That is their morality, yet they are prepared to satirise the casino society they worship in a little game. If you questioned their morality they would stare at you as if you were mad. They think their morals are superior to anybody's.