Thursday, January 29, 2009

Devalued April Fools' Day

Home secretary bills taxpayers for porn and bath plug. Surely this is an April Fools' prank. We've all been had. Of course, we all know that this story is true.

Sadly, the comedy effect in the annual tradition of newspapers printing April Fools' stories is fading away as it is becoming more and more difficult to work out which story is the false one. A few years ago, the Jacqui Smith saga would have been a sure prank.

Nowadays, it's hard to tell where government ends and comedy begins.

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