No Rock And Roll Fun

YOU'LL BE SINGING… WHEN YOU'RE NOT WOMEN: After all the hoopla about Afghan TV showing a woman singing, it turns out to be a bit of a false dawn, as the head of the TV service, Azizullah Aryanfar, has said he's not about to do that again. Not that the Taliban and the old repressive tendencies in the country have any sway now that America has restored democracy and oil pipelines there, oh no. It's just, you know, women, singing… there's only so many talented women about and one every ten years is probably enough, isn't it? You don't want people to get bored by overloading the airwaves with the same sort of thing - look what happened to talking dogs in the UK. One minute Thats Life has a dog saying "sausages", then they're everywhere. But where are they now? Not that Afghan TV would show a dog saying sausages, because that would probably upset someone, somewhere, with some sort of large weapon…