A couple of quotes; first Marina Hyde on Simon Cowell -
"... The Charles Foster Kane of unscripted programming." This is how Ms. Hyde believes that Cowell sees himself, as opposed to the Jay Gatsby figure she had discerned earlier.

"The expenses row has really put me off politics ... so I'm going to vote for racism, bigotry and hatred instead." From a cartoon in Private Eye, the work of someone who may be called Wilbur (difficult to make out the siganature).

Re Cowell and his carnival of freaks; I see that our Prime Minister has no more important matter to ponder than the condition of Ms. Susan Boyle. All the nation's problems have melted away, it seems.