Typhoons, IKEA & Cluedo

Has the world gone completely mad? Probably. At exactly the same time that our TV screens are covered with images of extreme human suffering (not talking about having to watch the skeletal Miley Cyrus here) in the Philippines, someone is calmly prepared to pay $142 million for a series of Francis Bacon paintings. I appreciate beauty is in the eye of the beholder (if you can spot where it is in that particular artwork) but aren't we witnessing an incredibly obscene act of wilful blindness? Oh, smell the irony. The giant pink diamond bought in Switzerland for $50 million plus or the Warhol work in New York makes government responses to the typhoon just seem pathetic (which in the case of China they are). Three cheers for IKEA, I say- there won't be many times they manage to outbid the world's second largest economy (even if they still produce furniture I can't assemble).

Possibly the final thought on JFK:Isn't the place you deposit books called a 'library'? So Lee Harvey Oswald was in a 'Library Library'. With the lead piping and Colonel Mustard, we presume. Has no-one else thought this is a boardgame waiting to happen? No? Just me then.