Thursday 26th June 2008

End of the John Lewis list: MPs to be banned from buying TVs and installing new kitchens on expenses. But can the thieving bastards still pay rent and claim expenses on houses they already own?

Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper face sleaze watchdog probe over using expenses to pay their mortgage. Surely they should be facing a court of law?

Smoking's hidden death toll revealed. About 13,000 Scots a year die of lung cancer and other smoking-related diseases, such heart illnesses. Another 1,600 people die in Scotland each year from the cancers newly linked to the habit. Whenever this topic is mentioned, the addicts counter the facts with dubious statistics of imaginary family members who lived to be 367, smoked fifty Woodbines a day, never had a day’s illness and all their family members died in their second century.