:: Saw It Coming ::

As Georgie Porgie prepares to leave our drizzly shores, I notice that amongst the flurry of news items about anti-War protests, horrific bomb attacks in Turkey and improvements in Dubya's public speaking, one hot story has been glaringly overlooked. except by the Grauniad, whose reporters today breathlessly exclaimed Hoxton's Had It. Tigger will be gloating in her legwarmers as this is a constant gripe of ours. The Hoxton Fin's begun to droop and the odious Shoreditch Mullet has lost its ironic edge (did it ever have one?).

Another sneaking suspicion comes to fruition: After the success of the Indy's alternative tabloid format, the Times has decided to follow suit. What will this be like, I wonder. Gut instinct tells me it will look something like this, with plenty of adverts for Sky and Twentieth Century Fox... Plus ça change.

And finally, thanks to Popbitch's very own Reverand Goatboy, here's a touching little picture to sign off:

Ta-rah!