Are you hanging up your stocking on your wall?

Refugees have often smuggled valuables so that they aren’t completely destitute on arrival at their destination. Sewing coins or jewelry into clothing as a nest egg for starting a new life. This is deliberate impoverishment followed by complaints about dependence on state resources.

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

I went when it opened and I really want to see it again!

But it turns out that isn’t true: MPs and the press together can rend, kill and destroy anyone and anything they want, just by all agreeing to do it. But they can’t build anything that anyone wants that lasts more than five minutes, and that’s why governments keep collapsing to hated enemy status.