You can always rely on the Daily Mail to find something to rage against. Today, the paper's front page was devoted to condemning the humble wheelie bin. A large photo showed a street with a few bins on display. Hardly an outrage to prompt millions taking to the streets to protest in the fashion of the Iranian election.

I remember the days when pavements were strewn with black sacks on rubbish day, many of which had been torn open by the local cats. I can't help thinking the Daily Mail are going round stirring up apathy, in the immortal words of the Tory grandee Willie Whitelaw.