Getting one's Rocks off

The one good thing about the Northern Rock crisis is the fact that it allows hacks and bloggers to pun muchly and shamelessly, in the manner of an early Christmas panto or a particularly groan-worthy episode of "Round the Horne". Ann Treneman in the Times leads today's charge with a sketch entitled "Ouch. The Chancellor is caught between a Rock and a hard place," leaving her less imaginative colleagues to cover the basics.
Congratulations to Conservative MP James Gray, who survived his reselection in spite of being criticised by his local party for playing "hide the Honourable Member" with a lady who was not his wife. Sound man!
Channel 4 cleared of fakery after OfCom rejects claims that those filmed saying such phrases as "all non-Muslims should die painfully," and "all your base are belong to us" were not, as claimed by West Midlands Police, "just quoting from Monty Python."

Devils Kitchen on European budgetary matters. Westmonster, for one, hopes that whoever it is who does the books over there is transferred to the Inland Revenue in time to apply the same level of scrutiny to her tax return.
Obama overtakes Hillary.
Oh Christ, this one again. "Oxbridge kisses up to racists in order to garner controversy." We bet the dons are shocked at this behaviour. Yes. Really.
After Huhne's "Calamity Clegg" episode on Sunday, Clegg is all "happy-slap back atcha!"
And Gary Rhodes may well attack the culinary abilities of Nigella Lawson but, let's face it Gary, you fellating kitchen utensils isn't so much of a turn on, is it?