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I have stopped watching the news but I switched it on. Sometimes you can learn stuff. It was late in the broadcast so time for news that was not about bombs or fatigues. It was about a whale. A baby whale had beached on a beach in Scotland. Humans were trying to save it. They wrapped it in wet blankets, which seemed odd but is standard procedure. A Scottish man said it needed its mother and her milk. He turned to the sea. “I’ve looked but I can’t find her,” he said. The camera showed the whale shaking and suffering. It didn't show the vet killing it, which is also standard procedure. The camera went back to the studio then, and the presenter was smiling. He said of the reporter on the beach, "And Julian said that the whale cried just before it died." I looked at the smile on his face. I thought, Christ. I prefer the bombs.