Absence Of Snow



I wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

All, that is, except:

• David Miliband who is no longer on my Christmas Card List.
• New Labour - especially Mandelson - Dead Parrot or what? [the old jokes are the best].
• The Unions: I'm my own man so stop already with your talk of strikes and comrades.
• And, above all, Tony Blair and Gordan Brown: you're yesterday's men so go off and retire completely and shut the fuck up - no more books - and leave me in peace to screw up on my own.

[You may have noticed the disappearance of the White Patch: I got fed up with  Tom Baldwin bending over me and sniffing it all the time. And, no: there is no significance in the absence of snow on my Christmas Card].

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