The solitary gerbil of the apocalypse

The sexing up of absolutely everything, by Catherine Bennett of the Guardian, sums up what a lot of us are feeling today. Blair was "staring into the abyss" and suddenly now he is strutting and preening himself and tongue-lashing all who dared to criticise him. Yeccchhh. What with the snow and all, I sort of want to go back to bed and pull the covers over my head.