Rod Liddle Rod Liddle

The true meaning of Christmas

Christmas is all about enjoying the look on the face of a loved one as he or she opens something which you know will fill them with great emotion. And so Christmas day came a couple of days early for me as I watched my wife open the Oftsed report on our daughter’s school and shriek with fury to see that it had been downgraded from ‘good’ to ‘satisfactory’ (or, as the word is better understood, ‘utter sh*t’). The accompanying letter from the headmistress was one of the most disingenuous and dishonest pieces of literature I have ever read. The rest of the day was spent watching the missus text her fellow mums, transfixed with rage.

Anyway, I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and I wish you the best for the new year. May you all, in 2012, retain your jobs and not be arrested for racially abusing someone. All the best, for a day or so…

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