If you are interested in changes in English culture from, say 1956, when there were still quite large pockets of disquiet at the introduction of government-sponsored gambling in the form of Premium Bonds, and still for the Labour Party the redistribution of income by gambling was morally only marginally superior to its redistribution by theft, I hope you did not miss the gem on the BBC Today programme this morning.
One in six of us, it was reported, have adopted as our New Year Resolution ... "winning the Lottery".
While I was picking up the morning paper I mentioned this in the shop. "What clown came up with that figure?", a man growled. "It'll be more like nine out of ten."
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I can remember 50 years ago when the universal cry was: "when I win the pools". Not "if" but "when". Nothing has changed!
Posted by Henry Kaye | January 1, 2005 8:26 PM
Posted on January 1, 2005 20:26