Yet more cries from Barak Obama and at least 4 other Americans for some kind of gun control following last week’s latest shoot-em-up tragedy at a college in Oregon. The problem really is with the other 350 million people there who either work for arms companies, represent them in the gun lobby, or just want to have loads of guns at home.

We don’t have guns here. Too dangerous. Illegal. Instead we have cars.

Natalie Pyne was involved in a contretemps with a cyclist who, allegedly, she’d cut up in her immense and stupid 4×4 monster vehicle. Fair enough. Cyclist got pissed off with yet another incident and kicked out at the car. They argued, then returned to their modes of transport and went off. Well, he did. She did something different. Armed with her Audi Q7 (a fancy lorry for yummy mummies) and with four kids in the back, she mounted the pavement and drove at the cyclist. As ya do. Then, once he’d rolled over the front of her car, she ploughed on into, and through, a shop window. That showed him.

So; much as its in our constitution that everyone has the right to bear vehicles, I think stricter controls are needed. Its ok to use a vehicle in self-defense, if your home or family are threatened, but go out on an all-out psychopathic attack?

And a Range Rover is just a fashion statement. Like having a pink, bejewelled Kalashnikov. Just because it looks nice doesn’t mean you can or should be allowed to control one. Same for a Q7, but bigger.

Things are never inherently dangerous. But people are. Very much so. We need to ask more questions before allowing women to drive such vehicles. Psychological testing perhaps.

Meanwhile, at the Conservative Party Conference, they’re all making their rather early claims on the leadership, when David Cameron steps down in 2020, either in Alex Ferguson mode or in Stuart Lancaster mode; we await the final judgment.

So up stepped Theresa May; feisty and tough. “I’m a woman” her body language (and heels) proclaim, “but don’t mess with me”. A Maggie Thatcher in waiting, but without the twin-sets.

Personally (not that I give a shit who runs that rabble) Boris Johnson, our esteemed mayor, is the leader the country should have. Just because he’s funny and clever and blond. We haven’t had such a leader since Churchill. And he wasn’t even blond.

And then there’s the Conservatives’ favourite, George Osborne. The wettest, weakest, limpest man this nation has ever produced. The missing link between humanoid and plant. With all the gravitas and statesmanship of Wayne Rooney.

No, I’m afraid its Boris or burn. Where’s the matches?

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx