Among all the millions of words written about the death of Dr David Kelly over the past week, there is one sentence that sticks in my mind. It came from his wife Janice.

"This was really not the kind of world he wanted to live in," she said.

I am not suggesting Mrs Kelly believes the bullying inquisition of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and other traumatic pressures drove her husband to suicide.

I suspect that like so many of us, she is aware of the possibility of murder.

You do not have to be a crazed conspiracy theorist to allow this might be the truth of the matter. The more the suggestion is sneered at and derided, the more feasible it becomes.

But Mrs Kelly was stating a simple truth. Her husband despised the cynical, ruthless world of power politics in which he had become enmeshed.

He was, by all accounts, a gentle man of honour and integrity. There was no place for such a man in such a world.

While I am at one with Dr Kelly's distaste for that loathsome culture, I widen my own revulsion to include so much else wrong in Britain today.

We have a Government squandering billions of pounds on warfare, foreign aid and international policing operations which cannot afford to care for its old people decently. Even State pensions are shamefully inadequate.

Remember it was Margaret Thatcher who caused so much damage by taking the index related element out of pensions.

In the words of the playwright John Osborne: "Damn you, England."

We now have a country in which hundreds of thousands of foreigners work illegally in fields and food factories. It is easy, it seems, finding forged documents.

Chinese "snakehead" gangs are smuggling labourers from China to feed a growing labour market that has increased by nearly 50 per cent in the past seven years.

A Home Office assessment of the problem was released without publicity after the start of the parliamentary summer recess.

A good time to bury bad news? Remember Jo Moore and the opportunity to bury bad news after America's 9/11 disaster.

Damn you, England.

We have dreadful roads and railways, hospital bureaucracies caring more about meeting Government targets than treating the sick.

We have shocked nurses coming in from India, Ethiopia and Nigeria describing conditions in our hospitals as "Third World".

We have an inane legal system refusing early parole for farmer Tony Martin because he might endanger more burglars.

Damn you, England.

We have Cherie Blair, making an insensitive exhibition of herself singing a Beatles song in China, hiring a PR person to improve her image. Will it work? Don't laugh. The Prince of Wales did precisely that and now most of a hopelessly gullible public think it is acceptable for him to marry his mistress, Camilla Parker Bowles.

The Church of England will not be far behind.

Damn you, England.