Daily Mail
"When it snows in New York, the roads are carpeted by feet of the stuff, not a slushy veneer, yet the Cadillacs glide freely along Madison Avenue all winter long.Snowploughs are out all night every night clearing everything in their path. The same goes for Stockholm and Toronto. .....No one stays off work in those countries because they can’t make it into the office; no one shivers all night in a shut-down railway station; the children aren’t given the day off school (like the pupils my daughter teaches yesterday) because health and safety regulations deem icy playgrounds and snowballing too dangerous. In these truly cold nations, the neurotic helplessness that paralyses Britain the moment a light dusting of snow falls is making us a laughing stock."
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