Suicide right on stage.. roll up, roll up

Susan Boyle: What happened to the dream? | Music | The Observer: "What isn't in doubt is that vulnerable people are being put at risk, for the most egregious of reasons: our amusement and Simon Cowell's and ITV's profit margins. There seems to be no mechanism in place to stop them. When I ask Phillip Hodson what can be done, he says: 'Somebody needs to die. Basically, there needs to be a Baby P.'

Andrew McCulloch, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, tells me that's just a matter of time. 'If enough people are subjected to enough stress, then that is a statistical proposition.'"

One Laws for the rich

David Laws could not continue to wield the axe on spending | editorial | Comment is free | The Observer: "The chief secretary to the Treasury might have been motivated by complex psychological processes, but he cannot have been ignorant of the rules – and he broke them"

WTF. Complex psychological process goes like this, then: I don't want to get found out so I'll lie. Oh, poor me, I got found out lying.

Here's my real story:

Laws outed! Hypocrite revealed as secret banker

Gay Tory minister David Laws was today sensationally revealed to be a very rich banker.

Laws said his relationship with money was "intensely personal". He claimed that he and his money lived "separate social lives" to everyone else.

One Laws for the rich
The millionaire bankist said he kept quiet during the election about his intention to cut public spending by billions of pounds and make lots of poor people even poorer in order to protect his banker pals who caused the financial crisis because it was "not in the public interest".

The long death of Woody Allen

BBC News - Woody Allen's woes over ageing and death in latest film You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger:

"'There are some great scenes between Sir Anthony, who has a mid-life crisis in the film, and Lucy Punch in the role of his much younger new girlfriend,' Allen says."

Looks like it's past time to stop making movies, Woody.

Tax exile

BBC News - Sir Mick Jagger goes back to Exile:

"It was a bumpy period, historically. There was a war going on, the Nixon thing was happening. Tax was through the roof. It was very difficult. The end of the '60s felt very strained."

Gotta love old street-fightin tax-exile tory Mick... no?

Out and vote - Labour.

Goodbye Gordon Brown turns into the I'm Not Dead Yet tour for Labour | Politics | The Guardian:

"'There is an anti-Conservative majority in this country,' Brown says. 'This is not a Conservative moment.'"

But when is? >>> Get out and vote Labour!