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Mad World
Mad World
By Paul Hildreth
Copyright P. Hildreth, 2006, 2008

I have made every effort to give appropriate credit for all sources of information used in this book. If I
have unwittingly omitted anything, I apologise, and will make the appropriate corrections for future
editions.

Paul Hildreth, July 25th 2008.

Any Biblical quotations used are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION\u00ae.
Copyright \u00a9 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All
rights reserved.

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Mad World
Contents
Chapter
Page
Some observations
3
Introduction
8
The Car is King
15
Why Bother?
33
Are we Civilised?
39
A Secure Old Age?
45
Teach your Children Well
50
A Roof over Your Head
72
The National Health Service
77
Water, Water Everywhere
86
Public Services?
89
Pain in the Neck
92
Free to Choose?
101
Business is Business

108
Conspiracy theories : World
Domination?

127
Please sir. I would like
some more.

133
\u2018Rip-off Britain\u2019

142
When did you last see your
Father?

151
The Unborn

156
Love thy Neighbour, and
\u2018The Christmas Spirit\u2019

162
The Demon Drink?
170
When PC is not a Computer
174
Stop to Think
185
Lies

189
Freedom and the Survival
of the Fittest

220
Would you Adam and Eve
it?

232
Conclusion and Action

247
Appendix: Does Religion
cause wars?

250
Select Bibliography
257
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Mad World
The following are some observations from the UK news for just over one year,
during the time that most of this book was written.
July 2004

50,000 are dead by famine in Sudan. The number could reach 200,000.
There are floods in Bangladesh. A food crisis is looming.
Terrorism goes on in Iraq, and in Chechnya, and in a lot of other places.

So does torture. And slavery.
The American presidential election circus is in full swing.
What is the most popular news story of the month?
It\u2019s the England football manager\u2019s sex life. The lady involved is alleged to be

receiving \u00a3500,000 for her story.

Another item considered newsworthy:
It\u2019s the announcement that there is a new cocktail drink for sale, with a diamond
ring in the glass, priced at \u00a315,250.

Sept 2004
Hurricanes batter the Caribbean and the USA. Many suspect that the world\u2019s
weather is changing.

Tony Blair says that something has to be done about global warming before it\u2019s
too late.
It is June 2005 as I write these words. What has been done in the last nine
months?

Scientists and environmentalists have been warning us about the effects of
global warming for over thirty years.
Oct 2004

There is famine in Ethiopia again.
Richard Branson announces future flights into space at \u00a315,000 per trip.
The people behind Spaceship One\u2019, a proposed service offering the prospect of

\u2018Space Holidays\u2019 are awarding a \u00a35.6 million prize for designing a spaceship.

Philip Green, the chairman of BHS is to receive \u00a346 million in dividend
payments, on company profits of \u00a3177 million. By making his wife head of
Arcadia (the firm that controls Top Shop, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge),
the Greens will save \u00a3150 million in tax. His wife is a Monaco resident, so is
exempt.

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