When did the media get so ghoulish? Has the 24 hours news cycle led to us forget that many people whilst wanting to know the latest news, don’t want it to be exploited to the nth degree?

I’m pretty hardcore. Much prefer gritty documentaries, grainy films about war and human suffering to comedy and period romances. But I have not been able to stomach the recent reporting of “tragic” events.

It seems to me, the great British public is growing to love a good tragedy. First came the school bus crash in Cumbria in which two teenage school pupils died. Awful. But I knew it was awful, I didn’t need to listen to endless interviews with “experts” and callers to radio phone-ins to confirm how tragic it was.