Hello there.

This week’s Weekly Hat… started off as a fairly banal ramble about politics and ended up as a lengthy two-part ramble about British society through the lovely filter of The Sun newspaper. It’s nowhere near as pretentious as it sounds, honest.

Meanwhile, I went to Thorpe Park yesterday with my sister, and experienced various rides including the Saw movie-based ride. Never seen a Saw movie in my life, but the ride was quite fun. Perhaps even scary at times. Also went on Nemesis: Inferno, the spin-off ride, Stealth and various others. As ever, the best time to go on big theme park rides is the end of the day, when queues due down slightly and staff start shoving people through quicker to try and go home on time.

See, useful advice already. Now, the hat-content…

• An election year in the UK – “No we can’t!”: The Labour conference happens. But why think about that when we can think about newspapers?
• “Let’s fuck ‘em up!”: It seems the main reason not to commit horrific crime is to avoid newspapers organising lynch mobs…
• Media and stuff: FlashForward! Gameswipe! Even more!
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: Featuring an individual so mysterious, I myself don’t yet know who it will be.

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