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Saturday, August 19, 2023

Bob Jones: Dumb buggers


Why do newspapers publish letters from dumb buggers? Hopefully, it’s to amuse us but knowing the newspaper world I suspect the answer is more likely sloth. Take a recent one in the Herald from a Joy Edwards of Albany.

First, assuming it was not maliciously written by a sworn enemy of Joy to make her look like a half-wit, she challenged an earlier correspondent, Andrew Tichbon, for writing that refugees flee to capitalist societies. As arguably the only capitalist nations left are Saudi Arabia and Quatar, I’ll assume both Joy and Andrew mean market economies.

Now brace yourself for what follows for Joy then makes a world-class screaming goose of herself implying no-one is fleeing from China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and North Vietnam, all of which she described as “non-capitalist countries”.