Morning, all. Well, it’s a big time-shift, as I’m reporting back from Friday night, which I spent at my computer, trying to arrange my holiday, set up a week of pre-timed Behatted/Weekly Hat content and write another article as well. But I hope you had fun, and I hope I look back on it pleasantly as well.

And, as a pleasant notice, next week’s Weekly Hat will almost certainly not be published as early on Sunday as usual. In fact, it may not happen at all, but I’ll certainly have a go. I get back from holiday on Saturday night, it depends if anything interesting happens and I have the energy to write about it.

And now, this week’s contents…

• How the Messiah grows up: President Obama rumbles on through hatred, bile and other things. But how’s he doing?
• Anatomy of a post strike: Postmen, it seems, are the new tube drivers, at least in terms of industrial action.
• Media and stuff: Muse! Assorted new TV! Kanye West is a jackass! (The President says so!)
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: The most powerful man in the world gets a hat visited upon him.

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Guten morgen. A surplus of news in the Weekly Hat this week, including yet more from President Obama, the moon and the Conservatives. (Two of those things are more interesting than the other.) So, yes, we have three news stories, though they’re all of a kinda middling length, rather than the usual one huge and one middling.

So, let’s crack on with the table of contents, as I’m not allowing myself to eat breakfast until I’ve got this done, and I’m pretty damn hungry.

• The Man/Moon Interface: Apparently we’re attacking the moon. Did the bastard have it coming?
• Peace We Can Believe In: The Nobel chaps decide to issue this year’s award in the form of an IOU…
• Conservatives – Vote now! Vote misery!: Yeah, it was the Tory conference this week. Thought I should mention it.
• Media and stuff: True Blood! New Who logo! FlashForward revisited! Yet another celebrity death!
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: You saw the hat of the moon!

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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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