to be fair to Mark Thomas, whose politics are hardly my own, he is pretty damn clever and funny. I think you'll find that his loathing for the current labour administration is approaching his knee-jerk hatred of "Thatcher"

However, although I don't agree with this piece of evidence, you are right - the freesheets are universally and awfully insipid.

Yeah OK he is quite funny when he isn't being a pain in the arse class warrior. But he's hardly Vernon Bogdanor. All those papers are shite - pets corner, I ask you.

Both it and he are shite. The only time I ever pick up a copy of Metro is when it's raining, I've forgotten to pack an umbrella and I need something to stick on my head. As to Mark Thomas - he gives me a headache - such hard work and so very self-regarding. I think that he, 'Gaunty' (ugh, yuk!) and Littlejohn were separated at birth.

Which is worse, 'Gaunty' and Littlejohn or Mark Thomas and Jeremy Hardie? Bloody tough call that

I, Jeremy, I had to choose which one of them I would maroon on a small raft made of Ryvita, in the middle of the deepest lake in the Lake District, it would be 'Gaunty'. Anyone who refers to himself as 'Gaunty' is seriously in love with himself. He's a world-class cretin - a gobshite extraordinaire. He’s also in danger of acquiring a deeper tan than even David Dickenson or Jordan could ever dream of. (The ass-licking that was going on when he introduced that other gobshite-on-a-stick, Cameron, on the Sun’s Internet thing. And it hasn’t stopped since.) He makes me puke. What a tw*t!

Yeah he is a total bell-end, agreed