The fall - although it’s 8 degrees warmer than on average. Laptop has really finally died. But not as sad or tragic as our cat Sapphire who’s been run over and killed by a car. Leaving behind six, yes six, kittens.

At Kings Cross station today at 2.30pm. A booming never ending shouting ‘IT IS ILLEGAL TO SMOKE AT THIS STATION’. Somewhere I caught a headline that one teenager is killed or seriously injured by cars in London everyday.

The editorial in New Scientist today disputes a claim that 30 minutes exposure to cigarette smoke can damage health. 30 minutes cigarette smoke?

I’m baffled, genuinely questioning why the same ho-ha about cigarette smoke isn’t translated into a fuss about car exhaust. Maybe oil companies are more powerful than tobacco ones?

If 30 minutes exposure to cigarette smoke is harmful; what are the health implications of constant exposure to cars fumes?

Does Bono know it’s nearly Christmas? Does Bono know that the third biggest killer in Africa after AIDs and Malaria is the motor car?

And what about Kalashnikovs; apparantly ’small arms’ have killed almost 100 million people since 1945.

Why isn’t the government making a ban on the production of guns; and missiles; and nuclear warheads?

Hey, the government that’s stopped smoking in pubs, hasn’t quite managed to stop the manufacture or export of armaments. Maybe that will be in next year’s Queen’s speech.