If you can hold your nose long enough, check out page 55 of today's Daily Mail.  Apparently, I should come with a health warning.  Never mind that the excerpt they chose doesn't reflect that he's not actually attacking a man or that the psychological aftermath is devastating, but then why would you ever expect the Mail to be balanced or reasonable (though they did get comment from the level-headed Amanda Craig in rebuttal, so perhaps I'm being unfair; well, no, there is that headline...)?  God bless them.  It's like a support group for ninnies.

Rather less hysterically, I also got my first major US newspaper review in the very estimable Chicago Tribune, which is quite pleasing indeed.

Today's entry was going to be about the David Tennant-less Hamlet that I saw last night (it's very good, and tickets are easy to come by these days) but more on that anon as today was set aside for a surprise visit from the Diana Mitford of the UK tabloid family, who pitched up post-Boxing Day in a mild mood.