A Toxic News Day

Leafing through the Guardian this morning leaves me feeling decidedly uneasy/queasy.

Look:

• Suicide bomber in Sweden
• MI5 helped kill civil rights lawyer Pat Finucane
• Ugly protest violence provoked by fact that police blocked agreed march route
• Police are restricting victims' access to the Coulson files
• More media attention to Charles and Camilla than to the philosophy student Alfie Meadows, nearly killed by a police club
• Mad pastor Terry Jones wants to come visit
• WikiLeaks on corruption in Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan and Azerbaijan
• Modern British attitudes are more Thatcherite than in the 1990s]
• Parliament is without an effective opposition to the most toxic Government since Thatcher
• Cancun
• Berlusconi is clinging to power
• and to round it all off, Peter Preston mentions the elephant in the room - overpopulation

This is all too much for me to digest today, so I am going to go to the post office and then collect some wood. And change the compost pail in the toilet. And therapeutic stuff like that.