The anti-war left is keen to blame the Iraq war for depleting government's resources.
The mobile network operators are keen to blame the manufacturers, as the problem is limited to certain handsets.
In many countries, including the UK, social services are keen to blame parents when children are too heavy or too thin.
Some officials are reported to believe this is a home-grown problem; others are keen to blame state sponsors such as Iraq.Whoever has been sending the letters has managed to spread panic and cause plenty of disruption.
When 14-year-old newcomer Frederika stumbles on the mutilated body of a man in the forest, the locals are keen to blame wolves, but Frederika and her mother, the tough, resourceful Maija, are determined to get to the truth.
But being a rightwing kind of Tory, Nelson is keen to blame state interventions designed to ease distress: in this instance quantitative easing – the Bank of England's government-supported programme of money printing which kept the banks afloat but also boosted the asset price bubble.
Forza Italia - party of the disgraced, but still popular, Silvio Berlusconi - is keen to blame Germany for the recession.
The Hungarian government, lead by Orban's right-wing Fidesz party, has been keen to blame the refugees crisis on "economic migrants" like Xhebexhia travelling to escape poverty rather than war.
But Shukla, who has led a groundswell of anger about the issue on social media after he highlighted the fact that the list of titles announced for 2016 World Book Night failed to include a single BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) writer, said that publishing as a whole was keen to shift the blame elsewhere.
