This rioting is ridiculous.

So far, all we have had is rhetoric from the French Government and no action -- the silliness must be controlled now before it spreads. Spreads to Germany, spreads to Spain, and worse still, spreads to the USA.

Of course this begs the question will it make it across the channel to the UK? It may be Britain's finest hour, and time to bash Drake's drum, Nudge Nelson's Column and get our military boys to stand up against the darker sinister forces of THE INSTITUTION.

If Bush went to Iraq as god told him to, is it ok for a rapist to rape because god told him so?

If Saddam was wrong to gas the kurds, would the british police be wrong to gas the public?

We will be victorious by the use of the British secret weapon : Wine, Women and Song. That's how we did almost every war we ever fought. Even the Falklands. When the Royal Engineers fixed up the Atlantic Conveyor, the first thing they did was install a bar. Once the wine was flowing, the women followed, the men then got stuck into the jobs of defending the country, and victory was inevitable.

Be nice to your local policeman. It's not his fault. It is the organisation. And by the way, they really are selling gas masks in Selfridges near the Sony counter -- the dark men in the spy-spook department will help you.