May the First

Today is the international festival of the working class — which means anybody and everybody who actually earns his or her living — and here in Greece at least it is a public holiday. I believe it remains so in the UK too. The holiday’s left-wing nature got up the nose of Margaret Thatcher — the only human ever known to be stupid, wicked, and mad simultaneously — and she wanted to abolish it, suggesting that instead the Queen Mother’s Birthday become a public holiday.