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Prisoners serve their sentences and then many of them commit further crimes Clarke could be sacked tomorrow Prescott

Prisoners serve their sentences and then many of them commit further crimes Clarke could be sacked tomorrow Prescott could follow the next day. Foreign prisoners could be deported in an act of xenophobic triumph We would still be at risk. I do not want to add to the sense of fearful anger, but here goes: Former prisoners, including rapists and murderers, always lurk somewhere once they have been released There is also a high chance that they will re-offend This is what happens. There is panic in the air A foreign rapist lurks around the corner A foreign murderer lives near by There is only one solution Sack Charles Clarke and as a bonus get rid of Prescott too We would all be safer then. Perhaps unhappiness has made them ugly – but they need to get a grip. Sick people may not need beauty, but they do need a modicum of kindness.c.patterson independent.co.uk

More from Christina Patterson.

My own experience of nurses in recent years has been one of surliness bordering on aggression. I thought fresh air and exercise were meant to be good for you, but if Blair et al want to encourage us to take more of both, they’d better keep this lot locked in a cupboard.The second was the nurses. The baying bunch who harangued Patricia Hewitt last week couldn’t have been further from the fantasy that has kept sex-shop sales of saucy uniforms steady. The first shock of last week was the parade of Hogarthian grotesques wheeled out as candidates for the role of England manager. If you cherish your privacy, keep well away.* It would be extremely unkind to rate professions in terms of their physical attractiveness, but sometimes it’s hard to resist. Spotting them can be half the fun – until, that is, as happened to half of literary London on reading Amanda Craig’s novel, A Vicious Circle, you stumble on a cameo that’s a little too close to home. It was Graham Greene who talked of the writer’s “splinter of ice in the heart”.

This time the wounded party is Alison Summers, ex-wife of Peter Carey, who claims that his new novel is a vindictive attempt to smear her.In recent years, Philip Roth, Hanif Kureishi and Tony Parsons have all been accused of cannibalising their private lives This, of course, is what writers do. All fiction is peppered with portraits of writers’ friends and families. But not sexually, please.Every writer is a cannibalWriter Draws on Own Life in Fiction Shock Horror Yes, it’s happened again. It’s quite nice to think that the minds of the people who run our country might be fixed on matters other than the cut of their coat or the quality of their coiffure Give me a politician in a high-street suit.

Bandanas and baseball caps rarely enhance a person’s gravitas. Nor do daily blow-dries that cost more than a week in Torremolinos. We have, in any case, quite a strong affection for the Shirley Williams birdnest or the Mo Mowlam mix of wisp with Bobby Charlton bald. More, much more, a trendy vicar.”Colourful” is surely a quality that works better in children’s paintings than in politicians.