QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“This may well be the straw that breaks the camel’s back -- well, not breaks its back, but at least changes the direction in which the camel is going… Not that a straw could do that to a camel, obviously.” -- Andrew Marr, BBC political editor, Today programme, Radio 4, 14 February.

“Pop Idol is one of the worse [sic] TV shows I’ve ever seen,” Charlie Whelan declares in PR Week -- only to confess five paragraphs later that “I have never watched Pop Idol.”