It was about this time of the morning, when most of Berlin slept, that East German troops went about the business of dividing the city, and building the Berlin Wall. There were some, on that night 42 years ago, who were kept awake, while the original six-foot barbed wire barrier was unrolled..
There are some awake tonight, as walls are quickly being erected in many minds, in many countries, as the Hutton Inquiry gets to the journalists tomorrow... the mental cacophony it's providing, and the segmenting it's effecting, could even outshadow the sound of jackboots..
Meanwhile, as the average Scot becomes accustomed to drinking al fresco at home, there appears to be a lassitude appropriate to the heat.
Some are thinking a decade or so ahead though, planning the new Costa del Saltcoats.. after all's said, if global warming's an inevidability, there might as well be some profit in it..