On The Second Day Of Christmas, The Progressives Gave To Me...

...bah humbug, please save the Earth!

So effectively have governments, the media and advertisers associated consumption with prosperity and happiness that to say these things is to expose yourself to opprobrium and ridicule. Witness last week's edition of Radio 4's The Moral Maze, in which most of the panel lined up to decry the idea of consuming less, and to associate it somehow with authoritarianism.

When the world goes mad, those who resist are denounced as lunatics. Bake them a cake, write them a poem, give them a kiss, tell them a joke, but for God's sake stop trashing the planet to tell someone you care. All it shows is that you don't.

I won't bother to soil my hands tearing the Moonbat's column to shreds because Tim Worstall has already done a splendid job...

Also, irrefutable evidence that, at heart, their desire to control the language knows no bounds.