You have no interest in this strange series of events, Keith? I think you are being unjust to yourself. Lack of curiosity about what goes on around us is a pretty dispriting quality. There are people who actually do seem to lack any kind of curiosity, and I find that pretty sad. I don't think you are one of those.
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Michelle Hanson's column in the Guardian is one of the few reasons to still buy that rather unpleasant broadsheet (which is still streets bbetter than the others), and today's one I found very cheering in the midst of all the smart-arsed sneers around it at Jeremy Corbyn's election. here is a link

And here is a taster:I was 73 on Sunday, and I don't usually like birthdays. They remind me that I am getting closer to death, and the world is getting closer to hell in its handcart, but this birthday was different. I woke in a cheery mood, because Jeremy Corbyn had just won the Labour leadership. Hooray! Marvellous. At last a change from all the mealy-mouthed, middle-of-the-road, jargon-spouting, scaredy-cat wets, who have led us into a money-worshipping, war-mongering, planet-wrecking pit of inequality, apathy and despair. Now here was a sliver of hope that we may get out of it. And the sun was shining. Fabulous.