A few words about risk, by Doug Stanhope on Charlie Brooker's Newswipe, helpfully transcribed at Error Gorilla: "The reason people are buying fear so easily and stockpiling it is you’d much rather believe all that bullshit: immigrants are trying to take your job and paedophiles are trying to fuck your kids and terrorists are coming to blow up your Ford Focus in particular. That’s far more palatable for people to buy, than to accept the reality, which is that probably – statistical high Vegas-odds probability – is that nothing of any significance will ever happen to you in your entire boring life…"