Three minutes after ten. Do you remember when we were kids and occasionally you'd get a little announcement on the radio?

Because people didn't have mobile phones and things like that. And it would actually break into the radio to say, would, you know, Keith blogs, please ring home because there is an emergency or there is a... I just want to say to my own family, a highly unlikely event that they are listening. We've got far more important things to do. Like GCSEs. Can you believe it? Where does the time go? I'm not really thinking of cancelling the summer holiday independently. I mean, number one, I wouldn't be allowed to. Number two, I don't particularly want to. And number three, it's certainly not something I would even undertake. Even contemplate, well, I am contemplating it, so that doesn't quite work. It's not something I would begin to undertake without a full and frank, familial

consultation. But Heathrow's boss is warning that there could be 18 months of disruption at our

airports, not for the first time and certainly not for the last time. I do wonder about the

curious alchemy of deciding what the big stories of the moment are. And tragically,

this decision, these decisions continue to be made in this country, in large part by

newspapers that are, I mean, quite deliberately and unapologetically biased in the favour, usually of their owners.

And even independent broadcast has to, I think, sometimes subconsciously follow that lead.

If a story is on the front page of all the right-wing newspapers,

can, for example, the BBC ignore it? Can ITV ignore it? Can LBC ignore it? If it's on the front

page of all the right-wing newspapers, even if it's only there because it serves the interests of the

various Viscounts and non-domiciled plutocrats and

sort of quasi-aristocrats that have bought newspapers or inherited newspapers solely to protect

their own status and wealth. The rest of us kind of follow a little bit. So I don't know. I honestly

don't know. As I get older, I don't care as much as I

used to. It's a bit like trying to get angry about the fact that the tide comes in. That is the way

the world works, as long as there are a few people around like you and me to point it out and

remind everybody else that it is, if not a full matrix situation, then certainly an interpretation of reality

rather than an objective reflection of reality,

then we should all be okay.

I'm also...

Oh, no, it's one of those days, isn't it?

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