'Proportionality'. A Disgusted Rant. Comments

Michael, I had to laugh at this fiirst as I spent the afternoon explaining the reasons for disproportionality in anti-terrorism stop and search statistics today! You've pulled together a grand argument that you drive through the poem. I like works like that which take the reader along with them and then suddenly open their eyes. Enlightening write Michael. Cheers.

Excellent comparison of 'proportionality' in different settings, an altogether apt and worthy rant, if ever I read one. And too, well, I had to laugh at the Waterloo bit, having experienced the latter first hand and fascinated by the former. Proportionality... fair play... sportsmanship... war as sport with an absence of anything resembling humanity (even for the dead) ... You've said a mouthful, Michael.

As a rant, I absolutely agree, goes without saying. I think the structure works, too - told as if an ironic depiction of a schoolmaster (heh heh) explaining what this British 'tradition' (my arse) means. Good continued match analogy, too. 'Would anyone notice'... perhaps the most troubling question. In short: well said. t x

As to the message, hear hear! ! As to the form....