First off, the film U-Turn is atrocious, don’t watch it. Has Oliver Stone ever made a good film?

Secondly, I was going to write about how great the smoking ban is and how nice it is to see such a rational and well thought through debate taking place in parliament and leading to a surprisingly large majority (politicians can change their minds shockah!!!). Then I was going to say how annoying it was that Patricia Hewitt is being villified in the papers this morning for making a U-turn and how the reluctance of politicians to change their minds because of this kind of barracking is a bad thing (why shouldn’t people change their minds in the face of mountains of evidence and rational arguments?). Then I was going to have a go at the Independent for being such a consumerist wolf in ethical sheeps clothing (over the last couple of weeks we’ve had the editorials “supermarkets are great lay off them you patronising fools” and ” what’s so wrong with a nice holliday in Burma?” to mention the two that have annoyed me most).

Anyway, through the gift of paraleipsis we’ve avoided that nastiness so I can get on with telling you how great The Eternals are. And how they seem to have been designed specifically to appeal to me and no one else, hence the difficulty experienced in obtaining their recordings. I got their most recent CD yesterday and it’s Grrrreat!