Sam Stone is now almost a cliche but as today's short-changed, battle-shocked warriors become vets there will be an upsurge in the jail population, in the shoestring drug centres, among the ragged people, sleeping rough; Bob Ainsworth, Des Browne, John Reid and Geoff Hoon may sigh a little in their affluent retirements and then continue in their prattish peerages and grubby sinecures, nonetheless avariciuosly, untroubled by Decency's sleepless moans. Listen to this, John Prine, unlike the aforementioned worthies, was a serviceman.
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