• If you think the law is an ass, read on

What's the best way to encourage frightened victims of domestic violence to pursue charges against their attackers? How about locking them up for a week if they're too scared to give evidence against the man who nearly killed them - that should shake some sense into them!

• Why does drink-addled Duff still look so good?

Another celebrity-style rock star has fessed up to his booze habit and, boy, it's a doozie. Duff McKagan, former bassist with soul crooners Guns N' Roses, says he drank 10 bottles of wine a day - when he was trying to cut down.

• It suits Israel that we never forget 'Nuclear Iran'

Turning round a story is one of the most difficult tasks in journalism – and rarely more so than in the case of Iran. Iran, the dark revolutionary Islamist menace. Shia Iran, protector and manipulator of World Terror, of Syria and Lebanon and Hamas and Hezbollah.

• Let’s be honest, all this sniping at Christine Bleakley is really a hate crime

Until a few days ago the constant sniping at Christine Bleakley was an irritation — a growing one — but an irritation nonetheless.

• Greed from landlords, not claimants

We've come to that point in the lifetime of every Tory government when we're invited to scream about people on benefits. Some people enjoy this activity all the time, but at the moment it's like New Year's Eve for drinking, a time when if you're not doing it to excess, you get sneered at for not taking part in the fun.