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...money to which they are not entitled There is a cruel streak in contemporary politics, a meanness that has not often been so explicit. Since the youth riots of summer 2011 in London and elsewhere, the parade of hateful and vitriolic media messages have been amped up in many ways. Even strikers defending their pensions should, in the words of Jeremy Clarkson on the early...

...money to people begging on the street, you may feel that you are showing respect to the people concerned. Whilst it is certainly true that you are not deliberately disrespecting them (as those who refuse to acknowledge their existence do), what you are showing is compassion not respect. The phrase mutual respect is often used in the philosophical literature. Richard...