Today's news is full to the brim of the royal wedding (unhappily sans Fred Astaire). I must admit I have gotten quite fed up with the matter. I remember the slight horror when the news first broke, as I envisaged months and months of sugar-coated wedding news obscuring anything important happening in the world. Now it may be that I read the right kind of papers (or that my internal censor has been very effective), but that hasn't really been a problem.

As Private Eye illustrates, the news has been as much critical as sugary. Both are problematic. I see no point picking today in particular to criticise, at any rate (I am contrary at times, but I hope I have some common sense). I did, however, reserve the right to spend the day working in an empty café instead of watching the wedding this morning. I also appreciated the Guardian's republican option (although I maintain that you do not have to be a republican in order to find read news more interesting than the horror of the bridesmaid's white dress).