You have to take your pleasures where you find them in this new age of miserabilism. Anyone found to be enjoying themselves too much might accidentally cause a run on the pound. Smile and Lucy Powell will have to call in the International Monetary Fund. Such pronouncements are apparently now to be taken seriously. We must all suffer a punishment beating for the last 14 years of Tory government. That clacking you can hear? The sound of pensioners’ teeth chattering.
But there is still fun to be had in Westminster if you know where to look. And for that we have to turn our eyes to Planet Tory. A barren lump of rock in a galaxy far, far away where some early life forms are struggling for survival.
