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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Good morning once again.

This is the twenty-fifth Weekly Hat, which is another nice round number. Not that I’m planning anything to mark it. Business as usual, pretty much. Well, there is the triumphant return of the sports section, if you like that sort of thing.

Oh, I should probably mention the recent engagement of long-time friends-of-Behatted Ali (of Aliventures fame) and Paul (not really of much fame, but has a Twitter account). Congratulations, folks. Just so there’s some sense of occasion to my 25th.

And now, contents…

• Europe Taken Over By Strangers: In which I decide that if these complete randoms can rise to EU power, so too can I.
• And Now Sports: Football and Formula One both aroused my interest in the same week.
• Media And Stuff: Probably a bit too much Doctor Who-related material here. Sorry.
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: This week, a rare public service!

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Good evening. And, indeed, happy Christmas!

Yes, this be the last Weekly Hat before turkey day on Friday. I am viewing next week’s as the big Christmas Special, as that will go out the day after Boxing Day and feature such festive things as the Christmas Doctor Who episode and, um, something else. But today is the last one before it, so have a good day.

It’s also a bit later than usual, partly because I didn’t start it until eleven this morning and partly because I wanted to wait for the result of the Rage/McElderry chart showdown. As luck would have it, said results leaked at about half three, so I’ve done all the writing by half four and, presuming the leaks are correct, will just click publish shortly after they announce the number one at seven.

That’s probably enough preamble. Contents!

• How About This Weather?: This week, two big stories have hit involving weather. So I have combined them.
• Media And Stuff Special – Raging Against The X Factor: Decided this had become big enough to expand from the Media bit.
• Media And Stuff: Plus I had enough other random guff to fill this bit without it. Merlin! Doctor Who! Get a free book!
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: Someone whose TV show has just finished. (For now.)

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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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