As 2005 draws to its hurricane-battered, rain soaked, and bomb-bruised conclusion Blighty would like to wish all its readers a happy new year, except Daily Mail readers and creationists. Blighty would like to wish the latter a lucid moment from whence they can denounce their idiotic ways and become decent people like the rest of us.

Blighty hopes the new year brings the usual months in conventional order, perhaps with a summer month chucked in between the winter ones for a breather. And let us all hope for world peace, the end to poverty and for right-wing nutters everywhere to shoot each other, rather than some innocent bystander.

See you all in 2006!