"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
'OfCarol? to Regulate Festive Singing Chaos
?In Sandown last night, the emergency services had to be called when two rival groups of carollers squared up in the town's main square. ?We were enjoying ?Silent Night?, when all of a sudden, we heard a second group start singing it in German,? recalled one shaken witness. ?Well, the first lot just sang that bit louder, but the ones across the street launched into 'Oh Come All Ye Faithful?.?
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