Sophisticated reporters despise the cliche about finding teddy bears at the scene of an air crash and being amazed that they had escaped unscathed. But I found it unavoidable and marveled that miniature bottles of wine had survived intact when all those who were meant to drink them had perished.
—Private Eye #1243's "Hack of the Week": Nick Cohen on the Lockerbie incident.
Every fire photo he brings in there's gotta be some burnt doll somewhere in the debris...
In my family, we often take our holidays in the UK. That's because aeroplanes are massive great balls of metal that come tumbling out of the sky in a screaming blaze of fire and prayer and children's toys floating poignantly on the surface of the Atlantic.
— Victoria Coren Mitchell, The Daily Telegraph, August 2021.
