Aargh! Those muppets in Scheduling have gone and done it this time. BBC2 have pulled out of News 24's coverage of the Blix report to the UN half way through the responses from the Security Council Foreign Ministers, before they even got round to Jack Straw giving Iraq a deadline to disarm (March 17th, as it turns out).

And why did they cut away from this globally significant piece of political posturing? So they could show today's episode of The Weakest Link.

Sure, they were quite happy to give over two and a half hours of their network's time to last week's official enthronement of the new Archbishop of Canterbury (don't get me started), but the possibility of serious conflict in the Middle East is nothing compared to the wrath of the Blue Rinse Brigade that they'll face if the grannies miss their daily dose of that harridan Anne Robinson, poster girl for mediocrity. Sometimes I wonder who poses the greater threat to humanity...