Big up Robin Cook. Maybe I've been wrong to think everyone in New Labour's government handed over their principles for disposal when they took office. He's gone up a long way in my estimation. (Mum and dad's old friend Bob Marshall-Andrews could be seen sitting just behind Cook as he gave his resignation speech).

It's been a strange day in W9 - there was a crazy bloke shouting abuse at all and sundry on the corner of Elgin and Harrow this afternoon for a good hour or so, and plenty more sirens tonight than we usually get. Throw these kinds of thing in with the health of the world's general psyche and weird stuff like New York's apocalyptic fish and even die-hard non-believers like me begin to wonder whether reality is beginning to unravel.