No contest!* The Diwali mayhem is in full swing right now and it's fantastic. There are fireworks being let off in every corner of the sky, roman candles and firecrackers on the streets and rooftops, kids with sparklers on every other balcony . I've just been for a wander round my neighbourhood and there are mums in wonderful saris lighting fireworks with sparklers and displaying the kind of cavalier attitude to health and safety that guarentees a good time! If only it had the whiff of Protestant supremacy Nov 5 has as we burn Catholics in effigy on the bonfire I'd be happy. But you can't have it all.

* Of course I exempt East Sussex and the town of Lewes from that - their Bonfire rocks.