The late Terry Pratchett, in 1990’s Moving Pictures, wrote: “The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realisation that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off.”
Now we have a new winner. Earlier this week, rapper Zee Remayne – aka Splinter Sales – had his door kicked in by the police at 6am in South London.
Bad enough, but tagging along was a grinning Boris Johnson wearing a bullet-proof vest.