Terribly good? Thunberg and Linekar are just terrible.

"Terribly good" or "Awfully good".

I do not understand these. The wonderfully erudite Stephen Fry uses them with alarming regularity. He's a national treasure, so it is said, which presumably means you can pay an admission fee to inspect his vowels.

I thought a national treasure was the likes of Stonehenge, where much to the Swedish Angy Bird's anger, as she jet-sets around the world from one environmental march to another, they have since brought in a hefty team of diesel JCB's to set the henges back one hour until spring.

Thunberg, like Gary Crisps (for those not familiar, the appalling Linekar of the BBC - he has extracted millions of pounds out of Walker's (Lay's throughout the world) to become their ambassador for obesity and cholesterol), seems to have also become a latter-day expert on Gazan affairs.

They both seem to hae a death wish by becoming involved in things they know less than absolutely nothing about, while at the same time demonstrating unbelievably high levels of immoral hypocrisy in relation to the environment.

Thunberg with her jet-setting from environmental meeting to environmental meeting, and the antsemitic alleged "green" Crispy with his 23mpg car.

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