So, this is among the latest Weekly Hat posts ever, but in my slight defence, I got back from holiday last night and have spent most of today (with a few quite lengthy breaks) writing the damn thing. You’ll be happy to hear that I should be available to do this on time for the next few weeks. Score. And I was also glad to see that the automated postings I set up for last week’s Weekly Hat and Behatted comics actually worked.

Thank you all for being about. Now, as I’m tired and have still more Behatted tasks to do before I can lie down, on with the contents…

• Private eduction buys a photocopier: Apparently education costs money. But it could cost more!
• And then I went to Ireland…: A slightly bloggy holiday-based interlude.
• Media and stuff: New TV! New Aqua! New danger!
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: Amazed I haven’t done this one before, really.

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HI there. A reasonably easy news week has just passed us by, accompanied by a few nice, blatant media moments. As you may note, it’s 10:30PM, about 12 hours later than I usually do this (I was at a party), so let’s get into it. I still need to get the week’s Behatted strips set up.

• Media And Fascism – An Extension: Nick Griffin of the BNP was on the BBC, you know.
• And The Band Plays On: Meanwhile, the recession chugs onwards.
• Media And Stuff: Up! Thick Of It! Unusual diversion into pop music!
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: Unusual diversion continues…

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Weekly Hat time! It wasn’t too difficult to write this week, happily. Stuff must have been easy. Plus I’ve had the whole week off, so I’ve been fairly calm and work has come easy.

Just for the record, in case a big news story breaks and I appear to have ignored it, this is being written on Saturday morning, as I’m back in Essex for this evening and most of Sunday. Hopefully the auto-post will serve me as well as it did on my holiday. Oh, and if you want more writings by me, I have a new blog thing which is called Feeding The Black Dog. Just one more quick plug for anyone who doesn’t read the Behatted newsposts.

But the Weekly Hat will continue, because I like it. This week…

• The Friendly Prime Minister: The PM tries to show his human face, just in time for the election.
• Atrocity Live: Has Twitter changed the reporting of horrible things? Starting with Fort Hood, a brief exploration.
• Media And Stuff: New Spooks! New Robbie Williams! New Weezer! (Well, some of the new Weezer…)
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: The future King Of The World gets double-Behatted.

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Good morning, readers, and happy Sunday morning.

This is the 26th Weekly Hat, and technically I think this makes it our six month anniversary! Happy half-year! Mocking the media and being ill-informed about world affairs since the 6th June!

With that in mind, today’s episode features… both of those things, really. To be honest, the news was a bit boring, hence the banality of my lead feature. Sorry about that. Now that I’ve built your anticipation, here are the contents…

• The Other Reality: Even by our sad, decaying British standards, lots of reality TV rubbish in the news this week…
• Osama Bin Laden, As Seen On TV: At last! An update to a news story from the start of the decade! (It’s not good news.)
• Media And Stuff: Paradox, Ash and, yes, yet more Doctor Bloody Who.
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: A Paradoxical instalment.

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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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