... £150m worth of books are filched from local libraries every year.Saddest part of the article for me was the report from Hackney :-
"We think a lot of it is that people feel excluded," says John Holland, Hackney Libraries' operations manager. When McCree, a full-time librarian, caught up with one lad who'd nicked a book and asked him why, the boy said, "because I can't afford to join".I see this as a small expression of the tragedy of the commons.
Thatcher's children were told that there is no such thing as society. The order of those days was grab what you can and run.
We have created a generation who believe they can't afford the commons.
Are they Blair's children?
