I very rarely read papers or pay much attention to the news any more - same old, same old despair-inducing stuff - but something on the six o'clock news on Radio 4 last night had me more than usually enraged and I have to share it. Trying to navigate the BBC website in order to share my reflections takes exasperation to an altogether different level, but I will not dwell on that here.

This is what I wrote:

'I refer to a report yesterday (16 July) on the six o’clock news on the funeral of Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe. He was a first rate fellow doing a difficult job, no doubt, but I inferred from the casual reference to ‘another soldier’ who died with him, that this unnamed soldier’s death was not newsworthy. I can’t imagine how that must have made the parents of 18-year-old Joshua Hammond feel. It made me furious. At the sound of your unctious ‘royal reporter’ giving further sycophantic gravitas to your coverage, I turned the radio off.'