Gola! Gola! The fans love England again! England are the new Germany! You better watch out! This time everyone promises not to get too excited! The nation expects! We will fight on the beaches! Applaud our silky samba skills! Quarter final as usual, if that. England 0 Germany 2. Someone says Belgium are quite good. Wayne’s transplant headband seems to be working; the hair looks better again. MoL still doesn’t really understand why newspaper columns have to have a picture of the writer on top, as if what they look like has anything to do with how they write. (The best author photos, not, are the ones posed for the chin to rest on the hand.) BBC news, which MoL hasn’t watched in a long time, seems to consist mostly of non-news, like last night’s story on a Steve Coogan, Judi Dench film, which was no news at all. The big question is should they stand up and move around or sit behind some important “news desk”. When driving, MoL sometimes listens to a BBC rolling news station, which leaves it wondering whether anything really is happening in the world.