I admit that my capability to focus on one issue at a time is as feeble as Alastair Campbell`s tolerance of dissenting media opinions. Nonethess I am going to spend the sad rest of my even sadder last Commission salary to buy this volume, in spite of the waist-high pile of unread books next to my bed.

Maybe it`ll yield the truth about Mr Cocker performing a series of shows sitting in a wheelchair (after having broking his hip in a freak Wickerman-cum-Spiderman stunt), just to get out of it at the end of the last concert and walk off stage.