You know that, if the first words you utter when you turn on your computer and read the headlines in the morning are ‘oh shit!’, things aren’t as they should be. Like any other sane, thinking person, I am appalled by what is currently happening in the Middle East: what the US started today will have major, major repercussions. I went for a trundle this afternoon to try to collect my thoughts on the matter, stopping for an orange juice in Charlton Park. I thought going back to that little cafe where I have so many wonderful memories might help me think, without much luck. At the end of the day, there is not much anyone can say about the fact that one sovereign country has unilaterally attacked another entirely without provocation, and in doing so has ripped the international rule book to shreds. There is nothing any of us can do now but watch and see how things unfold, as if it was all some sort of strange, perverse film directed in equal parts by Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Capella and Monty Python.