Dearie me - what a dreadful revelation has been delivered to the millions of red-blooded males throughout the world who believe that the ideal woman is a woman of substance, as opposed to the catwalk beanpoles and waifish supermodels the ladies of today seek to emulate. For to them, the disclosure this week that sex goddess Marilyn Monroe wore falsies must be as disturbing as when they first found out Father Christmas was a myth. But, still, what an outstanding actress!

The Home Office, we are told, is to deny public access to a register of Freemasons within the police - lest it damages confidence in the forces. But what of public confidence in the police being damaged by the suspicion that police membership of this secret society encourages favouritism and corruption? Has Home Secretary Jack Straw forgotten the Masonic scandal involving the police and false accusations in his very own constituency?

In a week when an East Lancashire grandad was told he would have to wait nearly a year for physiotherapy after undergoing major spinal surgery, we find a group of MPs campaigning for lottery cash to be pumped into vital services like the NHS which is currently denied this money. When, at the same time, it is disclosed that controversial gay rights group Stonewall has won nearly £1 million from the lottery, one wonders whether those who order these priorities should be put on the ever-lengthening NHS waiting lists...for a brain scan.

The BBC is rumoured to be axing Rottweiler interviewer Jeremy Paxman from Newsnight - because he scares so many politicians from going on the show that it has ended up being wishy-washy. But why should the Beeb be, in effect, aiding those ministers and MPs who would just feed us soundbites instead? Paxman should remain and be allowed to keep putting his straight-to-the-point questions - and show up the politicos who daren't answer them in person by putting them to cardboard cut-outs of the chicken-hearted.