Countering anxiety

Need a good laugh to launch your Bank Holiday Monday? Here - the subhead on a piece by Jackie Ashley:

A new campaign by those disaffected with our shopping culture could be a cure for anxiety and low self-esteem

Where else could you find something like that but in the comments pages of our best-loved liberal paper? Oh no, not anxiety and low self-esteem! 'Mom, help - I shopped, I'm disgusting.' Read the rest, which could have been written by herself Madeleine, or even Madeleine herself. It's: we all worship the one god, shopping; however, help is at hand in the shape of an academic conference on 'Countering Consumerism'.

My own paper for that conference: Pull Yourselves Together.