Hello.

The ninth Weekly Hat, then, ready for anther busy week. I considered covering the epic story of David Cameron saying he won’t join Twitter because “too many twits might make a twat”, but I thought that would get a bit samey after I covered Tory politics last week. However, his defence that he wasn’t aware “twat” was a swearword was fairly laughable. It’s taking quite a lot of willpower not to end this paragraph by calling him a twat. Because, well, how was I meant to know it was offensive? What about “cunt”? Can I say that?

Aaaaanyway. Here’s what we are covering today…

• Fear, In Itself: Terrorism makes a long-overdue comeback, but this time it’s reassuring. Except not really.
• And now sports: Michael Schumacher returns to F1! People play cricket!
• Media and stuff: Danny Wallace + Florence + The Machine + Psychoville
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: + The Machine (this joke will never get old)

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A slightly late Hat this week. I’d love to say it’s because I’ve been out experiencing something to write about, but… no, I’ve just been busy with tedious old real life. Sorry.

Oh, in case anyone’s interested, I’ve recently started doing some articles on random topics for Suite101. Check it out. My profile is here (and also now linked from the sidebar of this site), and anything I do should be linked there. I warn you, some topics may be re-used between here and there, but they force me to be slightly less anecdotal, flippant and offensive.

Now, this week’s material…

• Here is the news (now pay up): The evil Murdoch empire wants us to pay to read the work of professional writers. How crazy is that?!
• And now sports: We’re really not doing well at cricket this week.
• Media and stuff: Taking The Flak! Dexter! Weird Al!
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: Mr Yankovic, come on down!

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