Will it be this winter? Civil unrest? Will this be the year that, armed only with billhooks, we have to defend our village and its meagre resources from the ravenous zombie hordes?
I haven't got much to defend - a few winter squash which, like the Mayan farmers, I have already hoarded for months, waiting for winter really to bite.
The relapse into barbarism hasn't happened yet, and the forces of law and order still exist - or do