Kate Moss should try the Good Life

So Kate Moss is planning to scale down her modelling assignments because modelling (she tells US Vogue) is 'a bit brain damaging'. I'm sure it is, but during these tough Credit Crunch times, she might want to ask herself whether modelling is any worse for the brain than anything else that's going on - or even, for example, crack cocaine.

What Kate should be aware of is that these are the days of interminable brain damage. Everywhere, at any time, we are

at risk. Watching the figures on the pump race higher and higher down at the local petrol station amounts to a kind of brain damage - my station here in Dorset is considering installing an extra window to house a brand new fourth figure. The pictures which flicker across the television screen show closed libraries, un-emptied bins and freckled girls smiling self-consciously under limp placards saying, 'What do we want? We want a pay rise! When do we want it? Now!' And even a hint of Gordon Brown and his 'Summer of Discontent'