Life in Britain: Do drugs - you are a criminal. Don't do them - you are a freako

The biography of the current British PM turn out to be a gift that keeps on giving. In the previous post we hinted at leaving smartphones behind during whatever lurid initiation rites or hazings are required to demonstrate that you are a "normal young man".

Assuming we know what it is like to be a normal young man, we expect this hint to be largely ignored, as various frat and sports team reports continue to prove.

There remain important unanswered questions about the pig, the one of the genus Sus, such as, was it roasted, was it dressed, and why is everybody using the term pig when we were taught in school that a departed specimen of the genus is referred to as pork.

Honestly, we don't want to know.

Statistically, the number of perfectly normal young men who will ever perform with a pig is negligible, while the number of normal young people who do drugs is not.

The Guardian reports No 10’s strategy has been not to "dignify" the allegations, and we are certain they had fun with the quotation marks but an old friend of the PM has come to his rescue.

The rescue attempt, made in The Spectator, is quoted in the Guardian as follows: "No one is hurt because, let’s face it, smoking drugs at university is a healthy expression of youthful curiosity. It’s all those freako, career-safe politicians who have never done drugs who should really worry us."


Nothing could illustrate the utterly schizophrenic nature of - depending on your views - the debate over or the war on drugs better than this. The fact aside that the party and the government of the PM in question are fighting tooth and nail to decriminalize weed, the quote is just wonderful.

"Smoking drugs at university" nicely frames the social and economic status which makes it fine. For members of the group, the temporary situational stamp "youthful curiosity" applies.

Late onset adulthood for better educated and higher socio-economic status citizens.

No doubt the best part of the quote is the last sentence which turns those who stay away from drugs into freaks and career-safe politicians, well done.

Surely, this was not intended as a dig against some members of the cabinet, or was it? If so, can we have some names, please.

So, if you read only the Guardian piece, you may think the simple lesson is don't get caught, have a career and a family, and nobody cares.

But there is an unexpected surprise at the end of the Spectator article: "Make it legal, make it safe, say I: you owe it to your vanished youth."