pay someone to smoke it for him for God's sake.

I've had (another) prang!

Poor old George. Hardest game in the world being an ex-popstar, I reckon.

In my extremely limited experience of smoking marijuana without inhaling, sitting behind the wheel of a car automatically causes the little-known but all-too-real brain chemical totalparanoicalin to kick in, as a result of which you drive down motorways at all of 15 mph, your face inches from the windscreen, muttering to yourself "It's only a tunnel. Do. Not. Panic. Put your lights on and you can deal with this. Only you could slow down a bit more, maybe."

You'd be no more likely to ram into a photo shop on Hampstead High Street than you would find the need to change up into third gear on the M6.

Or am I not keeping up again?

The real George Michael and the "Star Stories" version seem to have converged.

Mind you, I quite liked his statement last time this happened:
"I want to apologize to my fans for screwing up again, and to promise them I'll sort myself out. And to say sorry to everybody else, just for boring them."

the more we laugh at this succession of incidents, the more you think that a) he's been lucky to get away with not hurting anyone else; and b) some poor soul is going to be hurt before he realises that drink and/or drunk driving simply isn't funny. What he does at home is his business; what he does on a public highway is a public concern.

Or maybe the sad thing is that he does realise this but can't or won't do anything about it. I think anyone with 2 such offences should not just lose their licence for a period, but be required to re-sit their test and a take a medical before being allowed back onto the road.

/rant over.

Can't that idiot afford a driver, or at least a cab?

Perhaps Andrew Ridgley has got work on?

but he really shouldn't, it's happened too often.

or is that just bad reporting

The Wham! star, from nearby Highgate, was on police bail after crashing his luxury Range Rover with a branch of photographic store Snappy Snaps.

At was speed was the branch of Snappy Snaps moving?

From our own correspondent. The crash site in question, yesterday.

Note the waggish graffiti.

er, apologies for getting the shadows in shot.

Though no angel and always his own worst enemy (though also much, much, much mote talented) Brian Jones must be spinning in his grave over the glee that the authorities showed in trailing him in the 60s compared to the fantastic, frankly frightening, 'there's a good boy, don't do it again' attitude used on George Michael and the ugly one out of the libertines.

Brian seems to only really have hurt himself, here's hoping that George Michael doesn't....erm....'fall asleep' during a school run.