They buried Menezes today. As darkeel pointed out in a comment on Tuesday’s entry, yesterday his family gave a press conference in which they revealed that the Met has told them that Menezes was wearing a denim jacket, not a ‘bulky puffer jacket’, and that he used his Oyster card to swipe through the barriers, not vaulting them, as was initially reported.

(But it looks like the police may be redeeming themselves slightly. Following arrests in the last few days, we have been unable to leave our building here at work, because downstairs in Liverpool Street station the police cordons are out following the arrest of two people (reports vary – some say it is two women, some say a man and a woman) who are said to have links to last weeks’ attempted bombings. )

My concern at the lack of public protest at Menezes’ shooting is that if we don’t decry these actions, we condone them by proxy. Which is the current state in America – because of the self-interest of the many, the few (generally non-white, non-Christian, non-Rightwing) have their human rights systematically stripped from them. I really hope this does not become the case here, and am delighted to see that Amnesty International have called for a full investigation into Menezes’ killing.

It’s eviction night in the Elstree house, and at the risk of disappointing some of my regular readers with more comments from the cultural morass that is Big Brother, I really have to have my say.

Kemal went through a bit of a bad time with the whole Makosi-Mole-Paranoia, but with that platypus-faced Orlaith going from group to group with her insidious bitching, and trying to break up the Kemal-Makosi-Vanessa trio, can you blame him for his insecurity? This week he has more than redeemed himself with his Red Squirrel antics, and I am loving his work and his Missoni-style shrug. So please for god’s sake don’t vote for him, but evict that sour faced, insipid, nipple-fiddling twat. The public already got rid of one of the most genuinely interesting people ever to grace (and I use that word with lashings of irony – grace is not the first word to spring to mind when I think of the force that is Science) the Big Brother screen last week when Orlaith escaped eviction. Leave someone interesting in there so that we don’t get left with a bunch of moaning Craigs.

Speaking of which. If he had been a heterosexual male, and Anthony a woman, then surely Big Brother would have intervened last night to stop him sexually harassing Anthony. This is the man who is worried that people will call him Myra Hindley when he comes out. She has nothing on you, love. You are a selfish, manipulative, preening winge-bag with man-boobs.

I feel much better now.