I hate this essay more than I've ever hated an essay before.
It's going to be so much worse than any essay has been before.
I've put off doing so many things for the benefit of this essay, which has found itself really no closer to completion.
Time is wasted.
Nothing is achieved.
If all the hours not spent on other things had been spent on the essay it would be over.
And good.
I just want rid of it.
Ten bits of news :
1. The Russians are voting for Medvedev.
Voting ends in Kaliningrad, the Western-most province, in an hour ish. Etomological note - Medvedev = Медведев = also the genetive plural of bear. According to Unreported World (avaliable on 4 On Demand) people were getting paid 400 roubles to vote in the Duma elctions earlier this year. But at least with the Medvedev-Putin combo, the Russian housewives will still have their favourite pin-up to look at on the news.
2. Prince Harry is still back from Afghanistan.
I have to admit, I much prefer this perpetual "Soldier Harry" headline to the previous "Harry Pot-head" "Harry is drunk in Mahiki again" media theme. It's quite a feel good story, which is always welcome. Although surprise surprise the Daily Mail have emphasised him complaining about the post and food, and the scepticism elsewhere is beginning to show. However, all in all, media coup. Well done.
3. It's 65 years since 173 people were crushed to death in Bethnal Green tube station.
4. People are still killing each other in Palestine.
5. And Sudan
6. Konrad Henlien = not a Trojan Horse for the Nazis.
7. Both Westenizers and Slavophiles were in opposition to Nicholas I.
8. When the people upstairs jump, my lights shake.
9. Tomorrow Pret is launching three new products, and delisting three old ones. These are wheat-free cheddar and pickle replacing wheat-free salmon and egg, blood orange juice replacing greatfruit juice, mango and lime replacing fairtrade pineapple.
10. Tomorrow it will rain.
