Saturday, January 26, 2013

United Kingdom: Now we await the floodwaters, this time with a peppering of pipes and carrots

Guardian: Around the middle of last week, I noticed that something was missing from my life. Something I'd grown accustomed to, started to take for granted and found comforting as I leafed through the newspaper each morning. I'm talking, of course, about flooding. Flooding had become a constant in modern Britain. News of killings and currency collapses, of terrible things happening in the Middle East or Africa, of pointless and anodyne political speeches, of endless rape allegations against the dead were...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/27/david-mitchell-snow-snowmen-flooding

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