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Over a hundred people are killed by storms in the southern USA. (And my most heartfelt sympathy for my American friends, as well as hopes that none of you was personally affected.)

There is war in Libya and violence in Syria, and revolution and repression across the Arab world.

There are local elections across Britain, including the very sensitive area of North Ireland.

Several police-related scandals are on the boil. Not one, several.

Lionel Messi has scored one of the most beautiful goals in the history of soccer, and made his team European champions in a highly charged inter-Spanish duel in the process.

Just a few of the important news around today.

And the BBC dedicates FIFTEEN MINUTES to the PRELIMINARIES of tomorrow's wedding. Not to the wedding, to the PRELIMINARIES. Most of it apparently dedicated to crazy Americans sleeping rough in Westminster - which, in the circumstances, seems heartless as well as disgusting.

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As one of tomorrow's countless Royal commenters, I'll say that people, including people recently hit by a hurricane, are gladdened by such things.

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And there I thought I was a "people".

But seriously -

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- I don't object to attention being paid to the country's future King and his future Queen. I object furiously to giving over half of a half-hour news program to that and that alone, even where it is agonizingly clear that the journalists are just filling time and repeating themselves over and over again. Five minutes are enough. This is bad journalism, period; it is sickening mental sloth. In this case, it is certainly making my inner Republican stir; but whether or not I objected to the subject, I would still object, as I object and have objected in the past, to the grotesque waste of time spent in trying to find something else to say about a story that can be covered in five minutes, while others clamour uselessly for attention.

Re: But seriously -

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Dan Rather agrees with you, to some extent.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-rather/and-in-other-news_b_855034.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl10%7Csec3_lnk1%7C59218