A few weeks ago, I posted a video of Rick Wakeman playing ‘Life on Mars’. Here’s one that’s very left-field, especially the little bits extra from the second verse on.

Here’s the full publicity picture from US Life on Mars, including the American Gene Hunt himself (Colm Meaney), Sam Tyler (Jason O’Mara) and Annie Cartwright (Rachelle Lefevre). What is American for ‘You great, soft, sissy, girly, nancy, French, bender, Man. United-supporting poof!’?...

Why subsidise big business? There's a thin and tenuous line between 'charity' and 'subsidising the fat cats'. Think some bloke once called it 'bourgeois socialism' or something like that. On second thoughts, if we don't subsidise them via 'charity', we can't have those fantastic imitation products...