HITCHWATCH
We’re gloomed!
DAILY MAIL
and
Mail on Sunday
columnist Peter Hitchens was never in danger of being mistaken for a ray of sunshine, but in recent months he seems to have grown gloomier than ever. Cheer up, chum!
10 August: “I hereby irrevocably and utterly surrender to the ‘ADHD’ lobby, a mighty alliance of bad teachers, bad parents, dodgy doctors and greedy drug companies. ‘My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun stands today, I shall fight no more forever,’ as the great Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce nation so beautifully expressed it in 1877… I have been defeated by decades of lies and hype, and simply cannot be bothered to carry on arguing about it. Have it your way. I’ve done what I could… It is one of the many things which will only finish when the pound sterling shrivels into mounds of worthless paper and billions of meaningless computer digits, or when we are invaded by a serious enemy, or bombed to bits.”