I was cheered up by the news today. I don't think that's ever happened before.

It was in the Independent. Apparently the ruling class have decided to save the world after all. Our Government has announced a new program of offshore windfarms, while in America Senate and Congress have both voted new green initiatives to shove down George Bush's oily throat.

I still don't think they've got it, though. Yes, we need windfarms, but they're still pursuing a model in which large scale projects generate energy we pay big business for, at a profit. What's needed is windmills and solar panels on every home and workplace. If the government sold us our energy, then they could kit us all out, and take payment in instalments on every electric bill, out of the money saved. But they don't any more, do they?

There are probably other reasons why it's all just window dressing, and I expect some of you will tell me what they are. Still, at least it was better than opening the paper to see All Earth's governments in Jeremy Clarkson soundalike competition, like you do most days.

For cheering comment, there was Steven Wells in the Guardian. He thinks that the England soccer team are too focused on winining, at the expense of Englishness, and that the solution to this is to make Morrissey the manager. Foreign teams will come to England and they will win. But they will also lose - in ways too subtle for them to ever understand. Genius. He was pilloried in the comments, of course, but who'd want to write an article Guardian commenters liked?

On a less edifyiing note, Man cuts off penis in restaurant. Yes I know, but don't tell me you didn't click on it. Maybe you should have used your irrelevance filter.