Since it’s Friday afternoon, perhaps it’s time for a chuckle.
The Times is running a Communist-jokes competition… and I mean ones with punchlines, no soundbites by George Galloway are eligible.
A man is thrown in a Soviet prison cell and the other inhabitants of the cell crowd round him. “How long you in for,” they ask. “Ten years,” the new man laments. “And what did you do?” “Nothing. I did nothing”. “You liar,” the prisoners shout. “For nothing you get five years.”