Vein opening time again

A new series of the X-Factor starts on Saturday, joy of all joys.

Not content with subjecting a clearly mentally unstable woman to unbearable pressure in Britain's Got Mental People With Talent, the X Factor now drags through a man with Asperger's, someone who didn't leave his house for years because of his condition, but who will be allowed to join in with this human freak show on the potentially criminally negligent hand-washing excuse that it is "his choice".

Why can't they pick properly mentally ill contestants, maybe someone with unstoppable psychopathic tendencies and access to a huge arsenal. Do us all a favour.