What an exciting week. As any fule kno, tomorrow marks the inauguration of Barack Obama while Friday sees is the triumphal return of middle-aged potty mouthed lout Jonathan Ross.
It's been impossible to avoid the former - watching the news last nightm, the BBC's news anchor and Washington correspondent could hardly hide their saccharine joy and reverence at the event, while most other media outlets are treating it as if it were a Coronation from a bygone age rather than the formal swearing in of an elected politician in the twenty-first century.
While noting that it is, of course, an historic moment for the US I can't help wondering if the whole thing has got out of hand and that anyone who thinks that Obama is going to save all of the world's problems is clearly slightly deluded.
Even more exciting though, on Friday, Ross returns to host his stand-up ‘chatshow' vehicle on BBC One. Amazingly the world has not stopped turning since he was suspended three months ago and there have not been riots on the streets - in fact, life has gone on pretty much as normal and he had started to fade from memory. Given that the suspension of Ross coincided with the US election result, perhaps after all we have Obama to thank for something - keeping him out of the headlines/
