The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that reading the works of Karl Marx is becoming ever more common, then we learn that louts are drilling for oil in one family's back garden every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack louts drilling for oil in one family's back garden was Paul Dacre who today said As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood..