As we are all unremittingly reminded about the bleakness of the economy in crisis - nay meltdown even, I read with knock-me-down incredulity that MPs are claiming for iPods (yes iPods) as part of the necessary accoutrements of their position.

Excuse me? Where the fuck do these people get off? May I suggest the next geo-political bus-stop called Zimbabwe perhaps......

A good beating to death would do them all the world of good. "Have YOU had an accident at work?........Call claims direct."