Ben Aaronovitch Quote

The media response to unusual weather is as ritualized and predictable as the stages of grief. First comes denial: I can't believe there's so much snow. Then anger: Why can't I drive my car, why are the trains not running? Then blame: Why haven't the local authorities sanded the roads, where are the snowplows, and how come the Canadians can deal with this and we can't? This last stage goes on the longest and tends to trail off into a mumbled grumbling moan, enlivened by occasional ILLEGALS ATE MY SNOWPLOW headlines from the *Daily Mail....*

Ben Aaronovitch

The media response to unusual weather is as ritualized and predictable as the stages of grief. First comes denial: I can't believe there's so much snow. Then anger: Why can't I drive my car, why are the trains not running? Then blame: Why haven't the local authorities sanded the roads, where are the snowplows, and how come the Canadians can deal with this and we can't? This last stage goes on the longest and tends to trail off into a mumbled grumbling moan, enlivened by occasional ILLEGALS ATE MY SNOWPLOW headlines from the *Daily Mail....*

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About Ben Aaronovitch

Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born 22 February 1964) is an English author and screenwriter. He is the author of the series of novels Rivers of London. He also wrote two Doctor Who serials in the late 1980s and spin-off novels from Doctor Who and Blake's 7.