A Sop For All Occasions.

You are offered it automatically if one of your family is murdered, or if you are one of a hundred family members sorrowing after a disaster, or one of a thousand students who attend a school where someone has been assaulted. So it follows that the same fashionable solution applies if you lose your job.

   The workers in a Canterbury freezing works were notified today that their factory is closing. But of course, the workers "have been offered counselling." I can imagine it: 

   "Mr Nikora, I understand you have been here for twenty years and, because of your age and the fact that we are in the middle of a depression, you have no hope of getting another job. That is most unfortunate, very sad. How does it make you feel?"

   Whack!