Be very careful about what you gamble your immortal soul on. That is all.

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Botheration’s Quote of the Week cuts through smug anti-intellectualism to a stark nugget of truth about the condition of English cricket…

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On the verge of the unveiling, the public art project representing each of Europe’s nations as a pop-out piece from an Airfix kit, turns out to be not quite what the Great and Good were expecting. And everyone, absolutely everyone, has found something to be offended about.

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How CSS has the cure for cancer, the solution to war in the Middle East, and fixes for any other social ills you care to name…

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This is one that the publisher of the below-mentioned magazine really should have seen coming: the so-called Chinese classical poem illustrating its cover is reputedly an ad for a Macau brothel.

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The moral of this tale? If contemplating breaking and entering – buy a decent belt.

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Jamie Oliver’s collected a fair bit of stick for his new Ministry of Food education campaign. But one of his converts has it absolutely spot on.

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John Cleese, asked what he thinks of Sarah Palin, bursts out laughing. He then says: “It’s like a nice-looking parrot.” Watch him on YouTube and share the laughter.

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Cat, slumped over laptop keyboard: “Writers blox – I has it”

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This, from Joe Kinnear’s inaugural and quite likely only press conference as caretaker manager of beleagured Newcastle United Football Club, is priceless. Nothing like clearing the air from the outset.

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