Just a short one for the end of the working day. It seems as though there is a shortage of Physics teachers in the country. I wonder why this is exactly...hmmmm. It couldn't possibly be to do with the fact that this country keeps cutting funding to the bloody subject is it?

Maybe this is what Harriet Harman's bill will really be for, to ensure that we can avoid the looming crunch on science ability in this country by filling up physics teachers jobs with sub-par English teachers, drama students and corner shop owners!

Dissent is in the air, and who blames the Labour MPs looking to capitalise on the festering carcass of their own party, when the leader of the sinking ship seems ready to hand out all kinds of shady concessions to get a yes vote? A 9 vote majority on the illiberal 42 day legislation, saved only by the DUP, the hint of rebellion on the most recent planning bill and now concessions are being called for on the long coming plans to tax people more, and retrospectively, for their cars

Now is possibly the best time for fair policy construction and implementation, not ideal by a looong way, but the best we could hope for with a government and parliament structured the way it is

Scotland must have thought they were so smart when announcing a raft of measures to cut down alcohol abuse and protect our poor children from the sins of the drink. Pretty disappointed then they must be that ASDA have given them a very simple and very obvious wake up call. At it's most immediate it just goes to show how pointless "tough talking" is when politicians attempt to engage in it, and shows that a lack of courage nationally to stand up to the free market where it is causing a problem will mean you don't get anywhere. Cynically it more tenuously shows that independence and devolution isn't the solution to all of the devolved counties problems.

Rob Chester, head of licensing at Asda, said: "There is nothing to stop companies looking at expanding their home shopping network or opening up depots just south of the border and delivering to homes in Scotland.

An obvious statement that makes it pretty clear that governance on the issue of alcohol is going nowhere, fast. Meanwhile governments, of course mainly the one in over all power, continue to make it harder and harder to operate more sociable and reputable business around this supposedly evil substance pushing more and more in to the hands of the cheaper supermarkets that they clearly don't have the intellect or the balls to properly address.

Fighting alcohol abuse without first of all dealing with the issue of cheap and far too readily available alcohol at supermarkets (by comparison to other licensed venues) is like fighting a heavy weight prize fighter with one arm tied behind your back. Why are politicians so readily lining up to get their arses kicked on this subject?