Meedja on the Insanity Pills

Brown cracks down on knife crime...

Gordon Brown has announced tough new laws on knife crime (probably in the hope that he won't be stabbed in the back as often). The Guardian.

MPs and their generous expense accounts are still annoying the proletariat. The Times.

A new law will allow cyclists to go the wrong way down one-way streets. The Telegraph.

Councils have used anti-terrorist laws to check over 900 people's private e-mail and mobile phone records. The Telegraph.

The President of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak, is starting to wish that he hadn't removed a national ban on American beef. BBC.

A report has deemed the proposed NHS polyclinics to be particularly insalubrious. The Guardian.

Despite the the Man's plans to stop people drinking so much, Swedish scientists have claimed that a regular tipple will fight off rheumatoid arthritis. BBC.

Hip and happening MTV have been fined £255,000 by watchdog Ofcom for using dirty words before the watershed. BBC.

Hillary Clinton has finally given up her plans of world domination, gotten over herself, and decided to back Obama. BBC.

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