Gordon in the morning: Cops with guns

Okay, I'll give you this one, Gordon - the headline on the story about the Pet Shop Boys' b-side on the execution of Jean Charles De Menezes is pretty good:

Met shock Boys

Gordon, you can tell, can't quite bring himself to celebrate the idea that a pop group can release a song complaining about the erosion of civil liberties:

The chorus voices fears that liberties are being eroded by measures such as the anti-terror laws that followed the suicide attacks which left 52 people dead and more than 700 injured.

Okay, he doesn't come out and say "the Pet Shop Boys are helping the terrorists win", but the implication is there.

NEIL TENNANT and CHRIS LOWE’s most controversial track ever tells how De Menezes was gunned down at point-blank range in Stockwell Underground station after police mistook him for a suicide bomber.

But is that controversial? It might be their angriest song ever; it could well be their most political song ever. But since when did 'the police should be a bit more careful before summarily shooting people' become a controversial idea?

Then again, Smart is writing for the paper which stood applauding the day after the killing with its "one down, three to go" coverage.

Perhaps Gordon's on safer ground sticking to pop froth, like this advice to Cheryl Cole on how to break America:

If she’s going to sing, then she should get her vocal chords in order and blast herself off with a big show.”

The wiser head offering this advice? Mel B.

Career advice from Mel B. It's like civil liberties advice from regular Sun columnist David Blunkett.