"No, but I'm full of ideas."

1.) Am distinctly unimpressed by the goverment's proposals to pay people who inform on benefits cheats. For a start, it'll encourage nasty, divisive, judgey attitudes to flourish (and you know there'll be an awful lot of "so-and-so's on disability but they don't look disabled" - newsflash, you can't actually tell just by looking at someone whether they're disabled or not!). I rather feel that the amount recovered is not likely to be that significant in the scheme of things, and is much smaller than the approx. £16billion worth of benefits that go unclaimed every year, which to my mind is a much bigger problem - lots of people going without money that they're entitled to and almost certainly need! I just don't think that this is that massive a problem compared with the amount that corporations duck out of paying through tax evasion, can't we focus on going after them instead? Anyway, I was quite pleased to see a couple of articles on this subject appear in my Google Reader from Comment is Free: one by Zoe Williams, who points out that people already overestimate the cost of benefit cheating , and another by Deborah Orr. Don't read the comments! I haven't, but they are usually awful.

2.) Changing the subject entirely, isn't Horror of Fang Rock great? I rewatched it the other evening and was dead impressed. ( spoilers )

3.) I have had a headache lurking about all morning. STOP THAT.