I keep hearing people calling for the families of anyone convicted of the recent rioting to be thrown out of their social housing or council houses, and have benefits stopped. Even some politicians are joining in this crazy rhetoric.

There’s been repeated calls for using goal-line technology in football for years. Fifa has stubbornly refused to implement it, pathetically quoting cost as one of the main reasons when they are one of the richest sports on the planet. I always said the real reason was that Fifa actually prefer all the controversy and publicity created by the constant arguments about whether a goal was a goal or not.

There’s another UFO story in the news this morning as, “Several viewers contacted the BBC about strange lights that appeared in the night sky over Merseyside.” ( Mobile phone UFO footage )

I was talking with a friend the other week who said they leave their central heating on all the time because they had been advised it was cheaper. The same applied to their hot water heating system which, “costs much more to heat up from cold than to maintain at a constant temperature”.