So Much Things To Say .....

Normal service resumes - and where to start ?

I guess the Labour constitutional shamble reshuffle thingy is as good a place as any - and what a mixture it was too.

Two particular appointments struck me - Margaret Hodge as 'Children's Minister' - I guess as a stopgap while Ian Huntley is indisposed and geneticists work on cloning Gilles de Rais - and Chris Mullin, an appointment welcomed by Tom Watson and British Spin, but queried by an angry correspondent.

The Bush Bashing Corporation declared a special 'Hate America Day', ironically titled 'What Does The World Think Of America ?'. Driving to work Radio 4 offered me Georgeous George having his boots oiled with brandy by John Humphries. I listened to ' ... thousands of Iraqi children killed by .....' - and R5 was on, Fi Glover featuring a self-hating American and some chap who really hated America - the author of 'Why The World Hates America'. Five minutes of him (typical sample - that failing to ratify the Kyoto treaty was 'a slap in the face for the world' - I bet in Mali, the South Moluccas and Vladivostok they talk of little else) and it was back to local FM with its tedious 50/50 mix of rap and boy bands.