Me and the Mrs are off to London for the day and while I’m there I’ve set myself a little project.

Tom at Blairwatch has a string of headlines about the Archbishop of Canterbury’s unfortunate statements of yesterday (I say unfortunate not because I necessarily disagree with him but because he seems to have massively underestimated the response he was going to get from lazy journalists, political vested interests and wannabe demagogues).

The headlines, according to Tom, are majorly wide of the mark. I’m not going to comment further until I’ve allowed myself the luxury of listening to the Archbishop’s interview on the radio and read his speech. It’s an odd notion, admittedly, but I’m going to see if it works.

In the mean time, my project is to spend the day informing myself via nothing else than news bulletin and newspaper headlines to see how utterly ill-informed and mentally unbalanced I am by the end of the play. It’s dangerous, I know, but it’s a risk I’m willing to take to in order to get a feel for how media commentators and politicians operate and make their money.

I’ll attempt to document the journey with photos and notes. Wish me luck.