One more tick in the "capitalism" column: most people enjoy their job. 

Halley Suitt points to coverage in the Boston Globe for Stylefeeder and Top 10 Sources. 

It is starting, ladies and gents. 

I love this Daily Show clip about the Royal Family. Superb. 

Speaking of which, this cartoon pretty much sums up everything that needs to be said about the Met. 

Two great Londonist stories: The Sun is a totally humourless rag and our much-beloved friends at the Met are invesgitating whether the Gay Police Association have committed a "faith crime". Oh, horray, people are being shot in the streets and the Met are investigating faith crime. Perhaps next they should move on to superstition crime, I'm-not-religious-I'm-spiritual crime and finish up with a chocolate-covered helping of there's-got-to-be-something-out-there crime. 

The National Secular Society have produced a report (PDF) calling for disestablishment of the church and pointing out the "unique" situation Britain currently resides in with more church-state overlap than any other Western nation.