Kelly Light relief in a week of strife

festive, I’m thinking nativity scene, I’m thinking Joseph and Mary, I’m thinking cradle, but I’m not thinking Jesus. I’m thinking..... sausage roll!”

At which point anybody with a grain of common sense should have asked: “Is this wise, man?”

I suspect plans to have a pasty nailed to a cross at Easter have now been binned.

To be fair, as many people were amused or not bothered as they were outraged. And even the outrage was a bit lethargic.

Maybe because in the grand scheme of things if Jesus was born today he is more likely to get a Gregg’s pastry as a gift than gold, frankincense and myrrh.

Still for me it offered a bit of light relief in another week in politics at both a national and international level that has become a moral obstacle course to form a view on.

With each passing day the consequences of Brexit is looking to be worse than predicted before the referendum by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. And though I live in the same flaming building of a country as those who voted to leave the EU, it’s amusing to see them deny the evidence of their own eyes with the yawningly familiar ‘fake news’ tag before reaching for their tin foil hats.

Then when North Korea pro- nounced the ‘death sentence’ on Donald Trump for calling Kim Jong-un short and fat in a rare moment of lucidity, the bad taste part of me had a little chuckle at the thought of it.

And then there’s Russia. It is being blamed for subverting democracy via social media by amongst others the US and UK intelligence services who, let’s face it, really know what they’re talking about when it comes to subverting democracy in other countries.

In other words hoist by their own petard in the most literal sense of the phrase which gets its meaning from the fact a ‘petard’ is a small bomb. Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, poet and wit Oscar Wilde