The Matter of What Matters.

Do you know what was the most-read feature on the BBC News website today? This was the news event which attracted more interest than anything else going on in the world.

Forget Putin’s prospective meeting with Xi (which might include how to take over Eurasia and carve it up between them.) Forget Ukrainian advances in the war. Forget the rash of people in Lebanon holding up bank tellers at gunpoint purely to draw their own money out because everybody’s assets have been frozen. Forget the pro-Trump nutcase in America trying to take New Hampshire away from the Democrats. Forget the killer natural disasters happening all over the place. It was none of those. The headline ran:

William and Harry to walk behind coffin

And do you remember the headline: ‘Andrew to take care of corgis’? They didn’t let the subject drop at that, because today we had:

Welsh farmer’s dog sired Queen’s corgi

But best of all was this one:

Stay of execution for palace mice 

Traps to be un-baited until Tuesday

OK, I admit it. I made that one up for the sake of going with the flow. Fits nicely, though, doesn’t it?