I have a number of observations to make today. I think they’re connected, but let’s keep throat-clearing to a minimum and get to it….you can decide for yourselves at the end.

The night before last, I watched a Netflix movie, The Highwaymen, starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson. Despite the title, it’s actually a story about two former (now socially shunned) Texas rangers, who’ve been put out to grass because the Governor wants to reduce State violence and give Texas an air of greater “civilisation”. Unfortunately for the Governor, Bonnie and Clyde appear on her watch…..and as usual, Hoover’s well-dressed and College educated G-Men are full of “science” and methodology, but no match for two feral psychopaths.

The real Bonnie and Clyde cast themselves as Robin Hoods who robbed banks and were kind to the poor who had been mercilessly repossessed during the Depression by those folks we…