Notes

1. Danielle Lloyd looks a little worse for wear here, yet still effortlessly stunning.

2. Glastonbury highlights: Duffy commanding the stage and the crowd despite her diminutive stature, Hot Chip over and overing it, The Ting Tings, Massive Attack, Amy Winehouse a little all over the place yet never less than utterly compelling, Elbow's epic rendition of One Day Like This, Jo Whiley's gorgeous shiny black wellies.

3. Nice to see that the eurocrats are being so co-operative and rushing to give all our personal data away to the Americans. I feel so much better knowing that when I buy a DVD from Amazon or book a train ticket to London, that information will be passed to the US government, who will use it to protect g-d-fearing Americans from evildoers. They're so clever! I'm helping make the world a safer place and spreading freedom, dammit!

Seriously though, how did we get to a world where crap like this is possible? When I voted at the last general election, where was this in Labour's manifesto? In fact, when will this be brought before parliament to be voted on? Of course, it wasn't in the manifesto and parliament will never get a say, save for perhaps in a select commitee report nobody will ever read. The European parliament might debate it, but the European Parliament can't do anything about it - it has all the authority of its Zimbabwean counterpart. The EU, led by the French, just presses on regardless, kissing American ass and handing over all our personal data. It's not even a reciprocal agreement FFS!

"Give us all your citizen's personal data"
"Why?"
"Terrorism"
"OK"

This seems to be what passes for democratic process these days.