Eli and Lolita

Johnny Lee Miller's new series 'Eli Stone', has a good feel, quirky and well-scripted it's good enough to be mistaken for a Canadian show. And with music from the Proclaimers and George Michael - who also appears in the first episode - it has a certain melt-in-the-mouth goodness.

The Scotsman has an article about a range of bedroom furniture for small girls stocked by Woolies, called the Lolita range. Woolies, it seems, have now withdrawn the range since enraged grown-ups have basically said 'Lolita? ARE YOU INSANE?' And Woolies claimed they had no idea why the name 'Lolita' was offensive. Seriously, you don't have to have read Nabokov...or anything in fact.

An amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill has been defeated in the House of Lords by a stonking 22 votes to 89. It would have banned abortion on the grounds of severe foetal abnormality and was introduced by the clear-sighted Baroness von Moron or Münchhausen or some such, whose usual repertoire involves voting against gay rights and for hunting. I think the good Baroness shows us a living, breathing (well kind of) argument for Euthanasia, in fact in her case...well I rest my case.