Give us our year back!

There was an interesting piece in yesterday’s Daily Disaster. Someone had found a special edition celebrating the arrival of the 20th century. And I quote: “The special edition, price 6d, is dated December 31, 1900 – the world celebrated the dawn of the 20th century on the eve of 1901, rather than a year earlier. December 31, 1999, was the first time the convention changed.”

What the Daily Mail is really telling us is that the end of the 20th century was the first time we’d been landed with politicians like Tony Blair, who are to pig-thick to know that there are 100 years in a century, not 99.