With the global economy in the toilet and the environment not far behind it, might it be worth someone checking to see if the world’s richest bastards are building a fleet of rockets in the Australian desert?
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A fine book, I may have to re-visit it.
Definitely Elton’s best. I re-read it quite recently and it’s aged really quite well.
Perhaps we should encourage them – it worked for the Golgafrinchans.
Didn’t the rich bastards get blown up by missile strikes at the end of that novel?
they’ve already built some in the States – google ‘X-prize’
What on earth happened to Ben Elton, incidentally? I had a look at one of his books recently (“Past Mortem”, I think) and it was some of the most unpleasant stuff I’ve ever read. Like Irvine Welsh, but without the redeeming sense of humour. And he’s writing cash-in musicals with Tim Rice.
Well if they are going to build a fleet of rockets they’d better get their fingers out of their arses and their brains out of neutral because, having consumed the working classes and the middle classes, the financial shit is flying rapidly their way given some of the sob stories to be found here:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21483.htm
enjoy……….