The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that drilling for oil in one family's back garden is becoming ever more common, then we learn that Cherie Blair’s friends are praising Osama Bin Laden every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack Cherie Blair’s friends praising Osama Bin Laden was a homeowner who today said we are coming slowly, painfully to an autumn of understanding, I hope it will be followed by a winter of common sense..