I’ve tried to steer clear of this vomiting jamboree, honestly I have. I’ve followed advice about disinfecting my phone and TV remote control but it hasn’t stopped me yodelling into the porcelain canyon on a daily basis. Don’t misunderstand. I haven’t picked up the winter bug norovirus. No, it’s down to a growing nausea over the sickening scale on which we manage to get our priorities wrong. How do we let supermarkets pay farmers as little as 3p for the grotesquely-reared chickens we feed to our children while they pay the Spice Girls millions to ponce around in adverts so jarring they make your teeth freeze? While our poorest pensioners go without proper food so they can put an extra bar on their electric fires, taxpayers pay £10million winter fuel bonuses to 50,000 ex-pat OAPs currently whingeing into their sangria in sunnier climes. The same taxpayers struggling to meet their own soaring fuel bills due to private energy firms conspiring to bleed us dry while a toothless watchdog looks on. There is the £250,000 being demanded by that jet-propelled golf trolley Prince Andrew for the round-the-clock protection of his teenage daughter Bea. So while his girl gets sloshed at shindigs… Read full this story
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