Ear infections suck

So I've had an ear infection. It's going but it ruined my Bank Holiday Weekend. It's also made it very difficult to get to sleep - it hurts and then it feels all squishy - so I've only been getting 2-3 hours of sleep a night. This means that I only have two speeds at the moment: slow and dead slow :( .

England win the Test Match

And it was a close-run thing. A typical England batting collapse left me on tenterhooks. But Australia are too dependent upon Warne and he can't bowl every over.

Do we still need the BBC?

Never mind accusations of bias, with the proliferation of channels via satellite or cable, do we still need the BBC as originally chartered? Why not just cut it back to the World Service and two Parliamentary channels - one for the Commons, and one for the Lords?