Why some people can’t pass up a good resentment opportunity

Fair dues to the Polish ambassador for coming out fighting over Magda, with his facts and figures in a row.

Ripped off his CD plates like they were constricting Elastoplasts, he did, and let fly. More power to him.

One wonders if we couldn’t involve him on a wider front. You see, Magda was just the latest symptom of a licensed envy that didn’t happen in any other economic downturn, made manifest on a daily basis in our newspapers and picked up for reheating and recycling by our radio programmes. Virtually every day kicks up a new offering. Someone, somewhere, who is getting more money than — we are invited to decide — they should be, given the situation into which the rest of us have been dropped.