Chocolate? Hmmm…. Too easy, and too necessary to keep me
awake mid-afternoon. Cake? But solid, juicy fruit cakes are a gift from God.
Meat? No. There’s something I ‘use’ that probably does me and our world far
more damage. So for purely selfish reasons, I’m going to be starting a Lenten
fast involving NOT READING ANY NEWSPAPERS from Ash Wednesday up to Easter. If
that sounds a bit weak, it’s because I’m an obsessive reader of online
newspapers who needs to break the habit. Why? Because over the next few weeks,
I’m going to see what my life could be like without being repeatedly told by…
The Guardian and the Independent
… That the world’s going to hell in a handbasket due to
global warming, eating meat, Donald Trump, gun-toting American rednecks, whilst
being fed self-satisfied platitudes demanding to know why can’t we all be nice
to each other, and by the way, don’t you think all the people who disagree with
us are racist bigoted homophobic scumbags who need to be re-educated quickly… preferably
by our leader-writers?
The Daily Mail
… That the country’s going to hell in a handbasket due to
immigrants, the European Union, Muslims who are going to murder us in our beds,
lower moral standards (but please don’t look too closely at Mail Online), with
added platitudes saying that it’s all either the fault of Jeremy Corbin, or the
Church of England who have just gone soft by running food banks for the poor
and asking why they are hungry.
