Amongst the many things I like to do during my day, trawling through the BBC News page for something to be annoyed at ranks pretty high. I especially like the Have Your Say page as a good starting point for any prospective bout of humanity-doubt.

"I'm not a racist/homophobe/cello player but its about time the silent majority stood up to these brown folk/perverts/bassoon players and said enough is enough and it's time that we returned to the good old fashioned values of segregation/public floggings/string quartets." And why is it the "silent majority" are always about so quiet as to resemble, in fact, a regular-volumed minority? How do they manage that? Do they have to meet up to practice it?

Sometimes, however, you manage to find so many reasons to want a species-change within the main pages. I am aware the Stern report is in all likelihood the very worst case scenario. I sleep easier at night someone is making the worse case scenario public knowledge. That way, we can decide whether the very worst thing possible is something we all want to risk.

That said, how is it possible that anyone can still express doubts about who it was what did all that planet burnin'? And how is the argument that the costs right now may be too high to pay a good one? Are we to expect a discount later on, maybe when we've found an a second planet in the country that needs a bit of work? That would be like a Chancellor who just threw money to people in the streets because the costs of cutting back now outweight the three year recession that will follow? Oh wait, he did that too.

My favourite part of all of this is the reminder to the world that Tories are no longer relevant. The only way to make yourself a relevant conservative is to be a Conservative For Change. It's over. It's time to go home.