Did you know that Vladimir Putin is a torso model? Seriously. He specialises in horseback riding poses, but any rugged pose will do. The pictures aren't camp either, because he is Russian, and they don't have camp in Russia. Please don't break our podcast Mr Putin. Yes, he got upset, you see some comedians thought the photo's were funny, and may have laughed, so the Russians broke the internet last weekend. It was Putin's pout.

Gordon Brown is on holiday, bless him, because he is tired and emotional, he has gone to do some community work in his constituency. Meanwhile Harriet Harman ran the country, and the poor woman couldn't put a foot right. Now we have Peter Mandelson, who has to manage the war we have with the US. It's a war of words at the moment, but the Prince of Darkness can probably escalate it if he wants to. Some Americans are being horrid about the NHS, and it's made our whole country jolly cross. Sarah Palin says that an NHS death panel would have made her abort her baby. Our death panels aren't that bad! The baby would be fine, they may force some medication on the mother, but that is only reasonable. We are baffled by the town halls in the US, they seem like a rabble, it's very strange. Here if we are mad about a policy, and a local meeting is called, we go along, and we glare at them. We might put up our hands to make a strong point, but are more likely to get upset if a person who put their hand up after us gets called first. Now that is really bad, that would make us properly angry.