My Mum used to read The Telegraph (she’s switched to the Guardian now fwiw) and I recall being over hers at New Years 2013 and us passing around Johnson’s round up of events of 2012 in said Torygraph, in which he recounted the popularity of Gangnam Style, and how at least one attempt at recreating the dance in a British household had led to a fatality that year due to over exertion, before cheerfully adding how he was sure that ‘I’m sure many more deaths will be caused by this dance in the new year across the nation’ or words to that effect. Maybe I’m a snowflake who just doesn’t get the Bullingdon sense of humour, but was that meant to be a joke? I mean I know his whole thing is being a big toffy cad, but such unconcealed glee and amused anticipation at the prospect of many more proles meeting their early deaths while performing their silly little dances was so blatant it went beyond tasteless into the truly inhumanly odd to me. I know, I know, I shouldn’t be surprised but it sticks in my mind as not only being heartless but also a deeply weird thing to say. Like an alien forensicly observing humans dying from a telescope or something, and then attempting a knowing joke about it in what it imagines is perfect earthling language but getting the nuances all wrong.