- Fri Nov 24, 2023 12:02 pm
#58470
The Mail seems to have cooled off on its biannual stamps outrage, partly because enough people know that the stamps rotate at Christmas between religious and not. However, it got to the stage where even if the Christmas stamps were religious-themed, the Mail would get pissy about them being not religious enough. Or too modern. Or too many black faces.
Funnily enough, when the Pope wrote a thing a few years ago explaining how many of the common Christmas traditions take serious liberties with the Biblical story/stories (number of wise men, gifts, stable and manger etc), the tabloid press had a go at him for apparently spoiling Christmas. Yeah, apparently the head of the Catholic church knows less about its big midwinter blowout than Jan fucking Moir.
Mawkish sentimentality wrapped up in petty viciousness. Urgh.
As the actress said to the bishop, rabbi, imam and priest
"My eyes have seen the glory, I'm a born again Atheist!"