The modern day saint

Hugo Rifkind in The Times has obviously failed to grasp that it is not acceptable to mock the great man. Here is the opening to his version of Mr Mandela's diary:

For 27 years I was prisoner 46664 of the apartheid regime in South Africa. For 18 of these years I lived in a small cell in Robben Island. My nights were spent sweating against rough woollen sheets. My days were spent working in the lime quarry. I received one letter every six months. This was a hard time. And yet, there was an upside. For I had no telephone. Bono never called.

Read the rest. If it were not funny, it would be sad.