Alex Massie Alex Massie

Hobnobs for All

Via, Mr Eugenides, I see that, despite what you may think, it’s not all doom and gloom. Just occasionally good and wholesome news slips through the clouds, spreading sweetness and sunshine all around:

Every person flying into Britain will be offered a free cup of tea and a biscuit in an ambitious, if eccentric, plan to make the country more cheerful.

The hope is that tourists, and travellers returning from holidays, will be able to banish dark thoughts of a delayed flight, poor weather, and global financial meltdown if confronted with a free cup of English Breakfast tea and a plate of Jammie Dodgers.

Apparently it’s an idea first proposed by Waitrose’s MD, Mark Price who had this to say:

“What could be more welcoming that a cuppa and jammie dodger or Garibaldi? When everyone seems so miserable about the economy, I am sure a cup of tea would put things in perspective.”

Indeed so. Who can argue with this? Makes you proud to be British and all that. Better, certainly, than any ghastly state-sponsored day of celebration.

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