Bad Tidings

Debbie is herself achain-smoker, a blousy strawberry-blonde with a tough, good-looking face. She says she can frequently be found alone in here in floods of tears having opened yet another heartbreaker. “Just before you got here,” she says, “I opened one that said, ‘Dear Santa. All I want for Christmas is for my mother and father to stop shouting at each other.’ I just fell apart.”

Jon Ronson visits the tiny Alaskan town of North Pole… where six pupils plotted a Columbine-style massacre.