Gallows Humour: "Mrs Santa Claus" must die

Interrupting my "Hanging Trilogy" with a little gallows humour seems appropriate. Today I enjoyed three hours of solidarity with some fantastic human beings.

This was the annual Campaign to Defend Asylum Seekers Christmas bash at the Friends Meeting House. My good friend, the exceedingly famous asylum seeker Farhat Khan - and you'll find her at Guardian, Independent, and now Mail websites so I'm not doing a lazy link - was there. Just google her.

Fresh from her recent burying bad news (we could be deported at any time and NASS people come and wrongfully threaten us) soiree at Number 10 as a valued contributor to society, which is added to her Buckingham Palace reception in 2004 as a very exceptional human being, she was here upfront as speaker of honour, yet later also incognito as a traditionally garbed purveyor of presents to a happy crowd of asylum seekers and their children.

Being announced as "Mrs Santa Claus" however got her worried. Yet another affront to her nasty husband and yet another honour crime. Appearing to marrying a mythical creature.

Message to husband. This is not real. Farhat has not married Santa. Get over it.

Even the Daily Mail is now calling for hospitality for personable asylum seekers like Farhat. But of course there are thousands of children, women and men who would and could contribute to British life; who are in grave danger whether they can prove it forensically or not; and who need our support. If only they all had the exceptional balls of Ms Farhat Khan.