Slices of cooked sausage made from reformed Turkey and Pork

Ed Mayo of Co-operatives UK, former head of the National Consumer Council and co-author of Consumer Kids: How Big Business Is Grooming Our Children for Profit, recently has said: “Today’s marketing assigns simple and very separate roles to boys and girls, and whips up peer pressure to police the difference.” Just picture the packed lunch scene as one child proudly reveals the Fairy Hearts bursting out of her roll, while her embarrassed and envious dining companion has to make do with plain old cheese and pickle. Saba Salman, Pink Stinks.

There are many questions a population asks itself before a General Election, and the one that many people are asking before the one this year is, “Which of these rancid heaps of sewage will be slightly less repulsive than the other?” Maybe that’s the way it should be phrased on the ballot paper, to increase turn-out. Mark Steel.