Cirque Du Soleil

The sun is shining down on the circus that we call Hackney Council. Obviously the word "circus" is a term of affection referring to the way we're all one big family, not a suggestion that there's anything frivolous or comic about Hackney.

But on the subject of a circus, I seem to recall a dreadful accident a few years ago in which a juggler cut off his own legs with a pair of chainsaws. That was terrible enough news. But when I published an article a week ago about our Chief Executive, entitled Penny Wields Her Chopper, little did I think that history would repeat itself in another dreadful accident.

My sources inform me that Penny chopped off her own head today, announcing her resignation to senior staff at noon. I do hope that this was simply a resignation and not a real act of self-mutilation as with the poor chap who cut off his own penis in the pizza restaurant Zizzi last night.