I suppose I should say something about Vince cable today. What he said in the torygraph is all over the news, but I suppose it makes a change from reports about the weather. I think I’m in two minds about this issue: on the one hand, I’m glad that at least someone is standing up to Murdoch. If he takes full control of BskyB, sky will just become a British version of Fox news, which we can ill afford. On the other hand, I wish cable had kept his views about Murdoch to himself: we needed him in the cabinet, and a central part of it, as he is the only rational voice there. The other Lib dems in high up positions have all betrayed their principles for personal gain. Cable was the only true liberal there, as evidenced by his unease with the direction that things are going. How very telling that he has now been demoted, as it were, and stripped of some of his former power? CaMoron is forcing the lib dems to tow the line or disk demotion.

I can’t get too wound up about this today, though. We now have a tree – a real, live one – and we’ll decorate it tonight. I’m safe and warm with Lyn to snuggle up to. I feel like a kid again. Politics is politics, but those are the things that really count.