How to write political commentary

Yet again, ladies and gents, I give you the great SeanT, comment #13 at PB.com

"... an appropriately spent youth involves getting blitzed out your brain at every possible opportunity shows that immaturity can last well into middle age. I agree with the criticism that young people in politics tend to be Miliband-types, but there is a wide range of life experience that can exist between these two types.”

Fair point. However, I spent my youth getting monged on heroin, E, crack, acid and tippex, such that I nearly died several times of an overdose. I went to prison on a rape charge following a theatrically S&M relationship with an heiress.

I was so keen on destroying myself in the most jubilant way possible, I got in knife fights in Marseilles, got kidnapped by hezbollah, got stranded in Siberia where I didn’t eat for three days, became an opium addict in Cairo, lived in a Bangkok hotel that did heroin on room service, was hospitalised due to too much wanking, and I thought I’d fathered a child on a hooker but I hadn’t.

Clearly I am an idiot of the first water. And yet, I predicted that the third quarter of 2009 would most likely see continued UK recession or stagnation contrary to the predictions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer - and it turns out I WAS PROBABLY RIGHT.

Go figure.

For which the gentleman wins another coconut to add to his already enormous luvverly bunch.