Words are the new........... (fill in as desired )

It's so easy to have fun with quotes from people who are not thinking properly about what they are saying. I like these. Jack Straw on recently released documents from Libya concerning the possible implication of our Government in the torture of prisoners....."they say what they say..". Helpful?

A recently reported death by strangling of a blind imam outside a mosque. "This was not a hate crime." It's that juxtaposition of 'strangling' and 'hate' that worries me.

Finally some frivolity from the National section of The Guardian on Saturday. Following articles on the EDL - "not an extremist organisation", more on Wikileaks and Darling's hatchet memoirs, comes the "Manicure Boom". "Nails are an art form." "Nails are the new art." "They are the new handbag." Men need not feel excluded. "It's an intimate expression of art and culture" Ryan L.

Perhaps we should revert to that time of grunts and hand gestures.

I did like this though, from a former Gang Leader debating the causes of recent riots. "The Welfare state started off as a safety net, it's now a hammock and will become a noose."