Well, Britain is going down the tubes, we've immigration out of control, crime out of control, a ruined economy, and human rights legislation which makes a mess of everything - so, with typical banality the big news of the day seems to be the Tories getting in a bit of a spat about a cat.
Home Secretary Theresa May referred to a cat in her speech which may - or may not - have played a part in a human rights case which allowed a foreigner to stay here, Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke said that it didn't play a part in the decision.
Apparently it has caused a 'furious row' according to some of the tabloids, a right Conservative catfight so to speak, the claws are out, all the usual cliche headlines you'd expect.
Long after the conference season is over, and human rights are replaced in the headlines by something else, what will be remembered is Clarke and Mays little catfight.
That'll be all that is worth remembering. Human wrongs are going to stay, the Conservatives are not going to be the champions of common sense, they'll posture a bit and - at most - introduce some watered down reforms, blaming failure to act on coalition partners the Lib Dems and clueless Clegg.
One doubts we'll even get watered down reforms though, probably just the usual babble and spin, and then quietly dropped whilst public attention is elsewhere.
It's all a farce really. As we said to open, Britain is fast heading to catastrophe and, like some cheapo sitcom tucked away on BBC3, the Home Secretary and Justice Secretary are busy fighting over a Bolivians cat.
You couldn't make it up, it would truly be funny if it didn't seem that the joke is on us every single time.
