First of all… I’m sorry! For a full year I have not delighted my followers with a post. I can imagine the mental anguish this has caused, and I appreciate your forbearance. I’ve had not a single complaint, moan or remonstration, which speaks well for the good nature of Stroppy-lovers the world over.

Now to this year’s Stroppy. We certainly haven’t been short of meaningless twaddle, and I could have compiled the longest shortlist in the history of awarding. But I confess to favouring discretion over valour. If Donald Trump was willing to launch a trade war against Norway over not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, I asked myself, “What might he do to Linden Park?!”

The Nobel Committee probably had some lame excuse ready, like “How in God’s name could we give a peace prize to someone who’s arming the perpetrators of a genocide?” I can’t come up with any excuse not to give the Donald this year’s Stroppy Git Award for Meaningless Twaddle.

Photo credit: Associated Press [This is the FIFA cup, by the way, not the Stroppy.]