Cheer Up At Least You're Not Nigerian.

Because they've been having a rough couple of days. Yesterday (2/6/12) a cargo plane overshot the runway and crashed into a bus killing at least ten. Then this morning (3/6/12) a suicide car bomber detonated his device just as worshippers were leaving a Church in the northern Bauchi province killing at least eight. Then this afternoon a passenger plane overshot the runway in Lagos crashing into a residential neighbourhood.

Unfortunately I know nothing about any of these incidents because here in Britain we've had nothing but wall to wall Diamond Jubilee. Therefore I should take the opportunity to correct my mistake in my previous post. Although the pageant took place on the river Thames today the service at thanksgiving at Saint Paul's Cathedral won't take place until Tuesday (5/6/12). It will be followed by a special celebratory lunch which the British public have been encouraged to take part in by holding their own lunches at Jubilee street parties. The Queen of England's guest of honour though will be Paul Kagame the President of the British Commonwealth's newest member, Rwanda. I think he is worth a special mention because he seems to have taken the "Diamond" part of the "Diamond Jubilee" a little too literally by raising an army to start yet another war in the diamond rich Kivu region of neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

Elsewhere in the Commonwealth yesterday there was a mass shooting in a shopping mall in Toronto, Canada. Again I don't know any of the details but I'm guessing Canada's quite a stressful place to be at the moment. In French Canada they've had the student protests that have gone on for four months and have got the government of Quebec to the point where they're trying to ban all public assemblies Azerbaijan style. In British Canada they've obviously got the Diamond Jubilee along with the body parts killers case. This involves a gay male porn actor of Russian extraction who after establishing a relationship with Britain's "The Sun" newspaper allegedly sent human body parts to the HQ of the ruling Canadian Conservative Party before allegedly fleeing to France. Meanwhile the violence in Syria has once again crossed the border and spread into neighbouring Lebanon. So surely if Canadian intelligence has truly lost control of one of their assets shouldn't they put a burn notice on him before seeking an Interpol notice.

Oh and despite a poorly thought out Facebook attempt to get the Sex Pistol's 1977 hit "God Save the Queen" to number one for the Diamond Jubilee the sales charts remain strictly unpolitical with "Feel the Love" by Rudimental at number one and the Eurovision winner "Euphoria" by Loreen entering at number three. Personally I'm sticking with Massive Attack because this Jubilee thing has got me rather stressed. I mean with most Britons being given four days off and little choice then to talk about the Monarchy me continuing to work is only going to end with a lot more names being added to that list.