It is a tribute to the utter incompetence of the BBC that not only does their ‘Most Popular’ page still link itself to the 404 space, but it even gets where it came from wrong . In a triumph of optimism over experience, I pressed the link about druggies this morning, and went back into Room 404, where I was told I’d come from BBC Sport. Perhaps drug addiction counts as a national sport these days: we have to get the medal count up somehow.

Anyway, the gist of the story is that An Influential Think Tank says we should stop calling druggies addicts or junkies. It added that police shouldn’t search suspected junkies in public, because that is humiliating. The Guardian (who else) opines that such prejudice is holding back progress in tackling the problem. Next week: how social prejudice and suss laws turn angels to a life of drugs. It’s only a matter of time.

And by the way Thinky Tank, most of us call them abusers already.

The number of things the police mustn’t do continues to rise, and almost all of them involve stuff that will move their task from being difficult to impossibly difficult. Last week, the cops admitted that they’re no longer allowed to give chase to try and catch robbers on motorbikes not wearing crash-helmets…because Health & Safety say the escapees might be harmed. Sales of crash-helmets fell 12% on the news.

Mad bollocks wherever you look….another day dawns in Rules Britannia.