Time’s Person of the Year is…

December 14, 2011 in Uncategorized

… the Protestor. Well fancy that…

I suppose at least (i) It’s non gender specific (ii) with no named person no-one can accuse it of being fixed as was the case in 1996 when the BBC Today Programme “Man of the Year” poll was suspended amid allegations of vote-rigging for one Tony Blair.

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