I see our new housing minister Caroline Flint would like to make the provision of council housing conditional to applicants activly seeking work. Interesting idea and one that will of course appeal to the natural New Labour voters who read the Daily Mail.

The basic flaw in her idea is that it would require a change in the law governing council's legal obligations towards finding accomodation for the homeless and therefore is no more than the usual worthless spin that we have become accustomed to from this bunch of hypocrites as they try to woo Middle Englanders.

She did go on to say that "Living in an area where there is a concentration of unemployment can be a deterrent to finding work" and proposes setting up Job Centres in council estates where there is high unemployment. Well call me a cynic but if an area has a problem with high unemployment then looking for new jobs won't conjure them as if by magic out of the air.

Mind you there will bve a couple of new jobs in the Job Centres I suppose.

As anyone who has to watch what they eat for health reasons or because they are a hamster, knows salad can be very boring but try this.

Chop up a green chili, half a red onion, a bunch of mint leaves, a couple of tomatoes and some sugar snap peas. Put them in a bowl and mix em together. Make a dressing of lime juice, toasted sesame oil and wassabi paste and pour it over the top.

Blinding with a jacket spud dressed with Cook's Tuna Mix.

Put the other half of the chopped red onion in a bowl and mix with a can of Tuna in sunflower oil (drain most but not all of the oil out first) and a generous dollop of salad cream. Give it a stir and stuff it in your spud.

You know I don't find it hard to believe that more people believe Sherlock Holmes was a real person than Winston Churchill.

After all who'd think that an overweight, cigar smoking drunk could lead a nation through one of the greatest conflicts of the last century when we all know overeating, drinking and smoking turn people into a drain on the nation's resources and they should be hounded out of decent society.

While we are at it did you know that Professor Challenger discovered the dinosaurs that Speilburg used in Jurassic Park in South America and that HP sauce is really the ectoplasm of Cthulu