The only story in town

The news agenda has been hijacked for almost a week by the election aftermath. It's almost as though a senior member of the royal family had died, a terrorist attack had succeeded in causing casualities or a photogenic child had been kidnapped.

The 24/7 news services are in their element, the journalists are like pigs rolling in muck: they love it.

While the developments keep unfolding like a William Golding novel, the coverage is compelling: we watch while people under stress in claustrophobic buildings negotiate hard but communicate nothing. But it won't be long before 'nothing happening' becomes boring without an outcome: a case of Waiting for Gordo.

No predictions about who will be Prime Minister, except to say the bookies won't yet have paid out to punters.


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