Panem et circenses

Slim pickings this morning. I was looking for a bit about the Smoking Nazis wanting to ban smoking in cars but this wasn't mentioned in the rag and so it doesn't count. But.... Sod off. I hate smoking but if you want to smoke in your own car, go ahead and don't let anyone beat you around the whiskers with a health and safety stick.

I thought I was going to draw a complete blank as I sailed past the Queen street trees (complete with Photoshop efforts even I would be ashamed of) and an attempt to explain why the pledge card spending is wrong - is there still any dement left in the country who hasn't got their head around this yet? Boring bit about Brian Connell, a tedious piece about touching children and then we have to wait until A20 to bring a smile to the visage. After yesterday's syndicated savaging of Jeremy Clarkson the Herald has been even handed enough to publish a another syndicated piece in his defence. This perhaps, not surprisingly, comes from the Daily Telegraph - a right wing rag that has been referred to as the Daily Torygraph. The author of this piece has most eloquently put down all the ideas I have rather amateuishly referred to in my scribblings on this in the last couple of days. He blows a raspberry at the 'healthensafety' idiots and even quotes Juvenal - although 'panem et circenses' would have looked a lot more classy than 'bread and circuses'. He lauds the program as being what it is - good, peurile, totally politically incorrect fun. Hell, we so much need more of this in the increaingly safe world we are being forced to live in. Apparently there is a lobby in the UK that would have the BBC tone the program down and have reviews of the Prius and comparisons of safety triangles. For the second time this morniing - sod off.

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