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So, the UK Government has lost the Binyam Mohamed torture appeal. Maybe I’m seeing things a little too simplistically here – but why should how he was tortured be kept quiet for ’security reasons’. What he said – yep, I can see why that should be sat on. But how we made him say it? Come on …

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• Torture evidence must be revealed (guardian.co.uk)
• Torture case appeal court ruling (news.bbc.co.uk)

Believe me, go to a small market town like Farnham in Surrey and most of the people have life very easy.  However, get caught up in a school gate chat, and you’ve be led to believe that the bored and very comfortable people have the weight of the world on their shoulders.  So little is going on in their lives that they snipe, gossip and get worked up about Strictly and extensions.

So we read that the blog world is up in arms, livid, snapping their Michael Buble CD’s over their pets faces about Facebook’s privacy changes.  Who’d have thought having an iphone virtually pointing up your trouser leg and automatically posting every facet of your daily life to a website really meant you wanted it kept to your group of close ‘friends’.

Surely in the age of celebrity where not actually being famous is a minority sport and actually have a job that produces something you can eat or use makes you some kind of circus freak you’d all be glad.  The Plooptionary reads a press release from Doncaster Council claiming they have just 3% of their population left to become famous.  It’s their intention to print the names and addresses of those people remaining who have no fame in the hope that the media cirus that it creates will, in turn, make the remaining 3% famous – for not being. The one person remaining will be given a Nobel Prize for secrecy and then photographed picking up the award with Barack Obama in front of a global audience.  No disguises will be allowed. Facebook is just helping this process.

We are reminded of the compellng science of this graph posted previously:

George Bush, King Kong, Will Ferrell … need I say more

Well I couldn’t have got my predictions more wrong yesterday (here).  In mitigation I really didn’t think it possible that the cosy club would actually vote in a member of the opposition purely because he was disliked so much by his own party.  Oscar Wilde would be proud of such a plot line.

Anyway, lot’s to cover today – not least, Bercow settling down into his big green chair as we, as tapayers, decide we’ll dig deep to find up to £9.6 million for Stephen Hester, the gaffer at RBS.