It's that feeling when you crank your eyelids open and feel that layer of tissue from your cornea get ripped off and get blinked into the start of the blurry muck you'll be picking out of the corner of your eyes for the next two hours.

Scattered details emerge about the foiled terror attack, no hard evidence just yet as this might probably compromise an investigation at this point. Is this going to be a major coup for MI5 or another "North London Ricin plot"? Time will tell I guess, although I notice various Muslim radicals already spinning this as a hoax. Anyone could see that it isn't a shameless attepmt by the government to create paranoia - they haven't brought out the tanks at Heathrow yet! (perhaps there's none left).

So, what a good day to bury some news, perchance? What's this? Prashant Modi escapes prison for sexually assaulting a women provided he writes an apology. The "geeky Indian" was aparently "unused to Western ways", but apparently had no problems in going to a nightclub with three female friends, getting hammered on champagne, going back to 'his place' for a few more vodkas and then molesting one woman whilst she was passed out.

Sounds like he's got it down perfectly, if you ask me. Surely the deciding factor for his lenient sentence isn't anything to do with the fact his father's an Oil Millionaire, is it?

In the same breath, the wonderful hostile cross-examination of sex attack victims wins a reprieve for an abusive stepfather, when the girl cannot recall exactly what dates "Daddy forced her to perform sexual acts on him". As she couldn't ratify her interview claims that the acts occurred after key legislation occurred, the jury was directed to find him 'not guilty'. Great. Two sexual preadtors are free despite the best efforts of the police.

Not all bad though - two violent thugs are finally charged with the murder of Damiola Taylor yesterday. The two - Ricky and Dannie Preddie were well known to police, had a stash of weapons in their homes and a string of previous offenses. They were also supposed to be under supervision at the time they murdered Damiola.

It seems the two (charitably referred to as "scum of the earth" by police) murdered Damiola to steal his silver jacket. In contrast to the spoilt, idiotic gangsta-wannabes, Damiola's father today makes a very profound statement:

"I truly depair when I see youngsters running riot. I say to them, 'I don't have my son any more, yet you, who have all the opportunity in the world, waste it'.

"We have to give youngsters in places like Peckham opportunities to lead them to a better life. Too many come out of school with nothing. The Government cannot do everything, It's up to us, too"

Yet despite this example, so many still have the MTV pimp gangsta role model and want a life of Ho's rubbing their arses in their face whilst shooting eachother for dissin'.

OKay - depressed now. Time to lighten the mood with this, which made me aspirate coffee this morning.

'“It was 1983,” Cathcart intoned, “and we were all in the basement of the Hearst mansion in California, there to effect a work of Sex Magic. Obviously, Reagan could not be allowed to win a second term. That terrifying old man was going to kill us all. Therefore, the great and the good gathered underground to fornicate like heroes, thence to transmit a pure beam of blistering Fuckpower across the country and directly into the President’s heart, exploding it like a frog with a straw up its bum.”'

And Ellis just flings this stuff out, like unwanted clots from a scab, just higgledy-piggeldy on the web. Smug bastard.