Am I a cynical bitch for thinking the rescue of the wholesome pretty blonde POW was a PR stunt and may have come at the cost of rescuing other, non-media friendly POWs?

How much do I love giant squid stories? A lot!

If the website www.Idontwantoneofthose.com existed, it’d have to sell these Lord Bless This Defender of Freedom Figurines.

I’ve been here almost nine months and I still don’t get Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. I always felt like telling the great British public, ‘if you all ignore her, she’ll go away’. I’ve only just realised they actually like her, or the idea of posh twits who don’t have to do anything to be rich and famous.
Why has the Bracks government banned trading on Easter Sunday? According to the Age, some shires and shops have exemptions, but it still seems weird.
A parcel Mum sent me arrived at work today. She’d taken the ‘detailed statement of contents’ part of the Customs Declaration form seriously, and very carefully written ‘scarf and underwear’. I think ‘clothes’ would have done, but the boys at work (who all saw the parcel when it arrived) seemed to appreciate her attention to detail. Bastards.

According to one of the Evening Standard’s many glossy supplements, the Italian Ambassador Luigi Amaduzzi, “once asked the barmaid for a quickie. The man next to [him] said, ‘It’s pronounced quiche’.”
No reason, I just thought it was funny, and hey, it’s not about the war.