[Bones McCoy]

While I'm here and grumbling....

* Our beloved unbiased BBC announced its "News star of the summer" (I may have mangled that title).
* Shock winner, Nigel Farage for being at the focus of several leading news stories (Hotels and Flegs).
* Stories that the BBC cherrypiced to lead in advance of Epstein, Palestine and Ukraine (among others).

[The Weeping Angel]

Fuck off Mason.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Fucking hell. Fascinating?

I'd suggest "Farage struggles for fiscal credibility", which they chucked at Ed Miliband for wanting to reduce the deficit more slowly than Osborne.

[kreuzberger]

It gets worse.

This morning he teed up the feather-weight Anna Foster to lead him in to revealing the well-rehearsed factoid that the UK has had more Home Secretaries since 2010 than Chelsea have had managers, implying that it is all Labour's fault.

Mason, a professional whippet fancier, shed some interesting light and shade when he was promoted, chiefly by not being Laura Kuenssberg, but is now comparably dreadful, if not worse.

Foster used to discuss period pain on Five Lice and then was suddenly reincarnated as a thoroughly decent foreign correspondent, who was matchless for her coverage of the last big quake in southern Turkey. She was actually pretty refreshing when she joined the Today programme, I thought, but has recently been trying to fall in to line with her Partridgian zingers and gotchas which mark her out either as not having her heart in it, or, quite possibly, a blithering idiot.

I don't know why I put myself through this at sparrow-fart every morning, rather than cranking out Ramones playlists on Spotify.