Good morning, all. It’s 8:43AM on Sunday, and I have a few hours to publish The Weekly Hat before I return to Billericay, Essex for a short while, mostly to watch DVDs and have a beer. I mention this only because Billericay was in Gavin & Stacey, and it’s important to cling on to these small claims to fame.

I am rather more indifferent to announce that I will not be covering the whole “Americans say mean things about the NHS” story, simply because I’ve read enough about it lately and have nothing in particular to add. Yes, it’s clearly an attempt by the American right to stop voters there from noticing that we’ve had “socialised medicine” for years, but still manage to have decent middle class western lives. Bastards. Oh, I do allude to it at one stage though, not particularly subtly.

An admin notice, for regular readers: I am attending Richard Branson’s corporate V festival extravaganza next weekend. Because of this, it’s unlikely I’ll manage Weekly Hat publication on Sunday. It’ll probably be some time the following day, in order to incorporate a write-up of the V experience. This could mean that posts in RSS readers will no longer be in a nice, even order of three comics/one Weekly Hat/three comics/one Weekly Hat etc, and I can only apologise.

But for now, this week’s hillarity is as follows…

• The unspoken amazement: A jewellery shop robbery in London this week has been widely reported, but not correctly.
• It only burns when I P: An article about the reveal of Baby P’s killers in the media. I apologise in advance.
• Media and stuff: Dollhouse, the new Brendan Benson album and an excellent new comic called Chew come under the stuff-roscope
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: Um. Yeah. There’s a photo here, but. Y’know.

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It’s still just about the morning, so it must be about time I published the Weekly Hat for the week. Luckily, since I spend a lot of time on Twitter, it’s been fairly easy to find stories this week, as a frankly alarming proportion of the news seems to be happening… on Twitter. Weird!

So, yeah, those of you who also use Twitter a lot may be able to tell what I’ll be on about today. Here’s the contents anyway…

• Twitter – The Left Wing Daily Mail?: Reactionary, furious, determined to slander opposing views… am I describing the Daily Mail or Twitter here?
• Falcon The Balloon Boy Doesn’t Fly Away: The most worthless news story of the week, given yet more undeserved air time!
• Media and stuff: TV TV TV
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: Worthless news story reappears for more worthlessness.

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The last content to be posted on Behatted.com, then. At least for a while.

The comic, I remain hopeful, will return. But this probably is the last Weekly Hat forever. I’ve enjoyed the structure and feeling of having a deadline (and, more importantly, of just about meeting it every week), but I’m not sure there’s a huge audience for UK-centric news digests attached to webcomics. And this does take a fair few hours work by the time I’ve finished researching, writing and publishing it.

So, this be it. Thanks to everyone who has read and/or commented. If you like reading text pieces by me, Feeding The Black Dog will be powering onwards.

In the final Weekly Hat…

• The Festive Execution: My last chance to spout off about an issue. I’ve chosen the death penalty.
• Media And Stuff Extra – The End Of Time: David Tennant’s final episode in Doctor Who. Long-awaited lengthy musings.
• Media And Stuff: Fortunately, there were other things on TV this week. I’ve also been to the cinema and the theatre!
• Behatted Photo of The Week: An obvious final choice. So obvious, I’m surprised I haven’t done it before. (No, it isn’t me.)

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