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…and thought it one of the most patronising and condescending songs I've ever heard. It's by New Order and is one of their most famous tunes (though I've never heard it), but I don't think you'd have ever caught Ian Curtis singing lyrics like this:

Some people get up at the break of day
Gotta go to work before it gets too late
Sitting in a car and driving down the road
That ain't the way it has to be

But that's what you do to earn your daily wage
That's the kind of world that we're living in today
Isn't where you wanna be
And isn't what you wanna do

K'off!

Listening to Radio 4 on the drive in to work this morning, I was rather disheartened to hear Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stumble over his replies to Sarah Montague's excellent and fair questioning. So bad did it get that he even tripped over his own sentences, at one point saying that the government had borrowed 2 billion pounds for investment, then denying he had said that at all - because in fact, the money isn't for investment, but to plug a bloody gaping big hole that their appalling mishandling of the tax system had created.

Following this disappointment were some heartening remarks regarding the possible existence of UFOs and an extraordinary recording of a general somebody and his men from a US nuclear base investigating a sighting. So after slagging off Robbie Williams as an immature lunatic, I now find myself thinking that maybe there is something in the whole UFO phenomena after all.

Also, is it an age thing that means I am slowly becoming a Neil Diamond fan?