Guardian: "Bonfire night kills whales" is the sort of headline that gives environmentalists a bad name. But the facts can't be helped, even if the messengers must be shot for sounding like killjoys.
Most communities have festivals of subversion, in which the rules by which they live for the rest of the year placid, ordered and obedient are upended in a marvellous explosion of chaos. Without these festivals - May day, Holi, Carnival, the Day of the Dead, Hallowe'en and Guy Fawkes night are examples -...