All white now
I know I use the Daily Mail as a touchstone for a lot of my rage and anger, but the fact remains that it's a nasty, bitter and reactionary rag that pines for an imagined lost golden age in which everybody was nice to each other, and had white faces, and nothing bad ever happened. As I went for a walk through the park and up to Alexandra Palace today the thought struck me that Mail readers must fucking love snow. Just think about it: hundreds of people out walking and playing in the deep white powdery stuff, experiencing a kind of shared cameraderie that was otherwise lost the day National Service ended. All those kids who would normally be out menacing right-thinking folk and being up to no good, now channelling their energies into building whacking great snowmen, trading in their guns for snowballs and hotwired cars for sledges. And those who don't have sledges improvise, making do with plastic bags and bits of cardboard - brilliantly, I even saw someone tackling the imprompt...