Thank you Newsnight Newsletter for this top-quality (if very old) joke. Finally, news just in of a worldwide survey conducted by the UN. The only question asked was: "Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?" The survey was a huge failure. In much of Africa they didn't know what "food" meant. In much of Eastern Europe they didn't know what "honest" meant. In Western Europe they didn't know what "shortage" meant. In China they didn't know what "opinion" meant. In the Middle East they didn't know what "solution" meant. And in the US they didn't know what "the rest of the world" meant. Sign up for your daily joke (and highlights of some obscure news programme on BBC2) at this Centre for Worthy Subscriptions [apart from Panorama, natch] and click on "New Users blah blah blah" (I might be paraphrasing, but you'll never know unless you clickthrough; now that you have though, don't you regret it? Me too. Let's form a little club).