I'm going to treat this one as an allegory of the cuts..

This week, I've been waking up in the early morning in the middle of dreams. They haven't been nightmares, but they have been 'dramatic'. One involved something going wrong with an Oyster card (yeah, yeah, how dramatic can that be? :) )

This morning's ( involved eight legged creatures )

A difference between us and France

They're rioting about cuts, and the two most read stories on the Guardian website are about Wayne Rooney possibly leaving Manchester United.

"Spending review axe falls on the poor" is only third.