Not a fan of weddings !

Yesterday was the perfect opportunity to bury bad news. The media were besotted with the story that William Windsor is to get married. His fiancee is painted as an ordinary middle class girl, this ignores the fact that daddy is a millionaire. Anyway as someone not really that interested I thought it far more interesting to read the stories that might have made it big but..

Without a doubt the paying of compensation to those kidnapped and taken to Guantellimo Bay where they were imprisoned without trial and tortured should have dominated the media. The previous may wriggle and say they didn't know, but the fact remains that British citizens were subjected to such treatment,.

Second Cameron is forced to back down and take his photographer off the public payroll, arguably the first climbdown, and a blow to those who think the media image is what politics is all about.

Finally floods hit Cornwall, now the news is treating this as an isolated incident, strangely no mention of the dreadful floods last November in Cumbria or the floods along the river severn in 2007. No mention of either the cuts to our flood defences or of course the fact that more extreme weather is likely to become more common as a result of climate change.

On a personal note my article on the Green party's success in Brighton Pavilion has been accepted for publication by Politics Review for their January online edition . I have to report that early this morning I finished reading the second volume of Chris Mullin's diary. Once again I was genuinely sorry to have reached the end of the book. I think you can't give a book a better recommendation.