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It occurs to me that this may be my last chance to plug Green Feet, a comedy night-cum-club near Angel at which I shall be DJing on Friday night. Do come!

I suppose I'm meant to have something to say about today's transfer of power, aren't I? Sorry, but it was only the third most interesting installation of a new PM I've seen on the BBC this week. It was so previewed, and is already so reviewed, that it feels sealed under glass. I remember watching Thatcher fall from the school library, I remember Blair's first giddy victory and the week or so of stupidly believing things had changed which followed. I remember feeling a part of a historical moment, and feeling something more than that too. Today? Nothing. I'm watching the end of a story I'd already seen spoilered and pastiched.
Still, we've got foxes on the roof out the back of the House Beautiful again - now that does seem worth noting. And my copy of John Crowley's fourth Aegypt book has at last materialised, meaning I get to finish reading a series I began when I was, what, 11? 12? About when Major came to power, come to think of it. Less than 50 pages in and already it's had enough wisdom and perfect prose for most writers to make quite a creditable career. As Michael Chabon says on the back "There are some people - and I'm one of them - for whom life consists only in passing time between novels by John Crowley". There's enough in the world to occupy me, it's just in the shadows and side-streets, is all.

Neither islamic 'honour' killings nor islamic terrorism have anything to do with each other (or indeed islam), claims Muslim Council of Britain. This in the face of clear evidence, of course - but then I guess monotheists have a natural knack for ignoring that. Meanwhile, the headline "Gay bullying in schools 'common'" should perhaps have used the word 'homophobic' instead; as is, it gives quite the wrong impression, albeit perhaps a happier one.
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