Marcus Georgio

When the streets are aflame what is worse than a largely ineffectual, baton-happy Metropolitan Police force still reeling from the deaths of Ian Tomlinson and Jean Charles de Menezes? No police force at all.

If, up until now, you’d believed you couldn’t trust a band with a gong and a member called Thor, you were probably right (unless you were trusting them to be Spinal Tap). But now, to give lie to that theory, Swans are back.

Britain’s best ever poker player Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliot on girls, guns and lifting the World Cup.