COMEDIAN Philip Hammond, who also works at times as Chancellor, revealed a funny bone this week when he declared; “I always know I’m in Scotland because I get out of the plane and it’s ten degrees colder.Then you drive into town, up to Holyrood, into Nicola Sturgeon’s office and it’s another ten degrees colder.”

STEPTOE and Hancock co-creator Ray Galton passed on this week. However he has achieved immortality thanks to classic comedy lines such as “Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?”

Of Kenneth Williams, he wrote; “Turning his head and smiling at you like a goblin in a woodcut drawing from a book of fairytales.”

Losers

THERE is no end, it seems, to Bono’s droning conceit, and no beginning of any sense of self- awareness. When visiting the European Parliament in Brussels he announced “Europe is a thought that needs to become a feeling, and I am, as an artist, in service of that.”

STELLA McCartney has long worn the badge of the ethical fashion designer. However, the replacement of leather with man- made fibres is now being attacked by environmentalists. Her non-biodegradable boots at £755 she contends, will not end up in the ocean. At that price you hope they won’t end up in the back of the wardrobe either.