The week's selection

Best sentence of the weekend:

'we Europeans now wish our own powerlessness upon the rest of the world. We make vaporous and offensive Nazi comparisons. We preach that unilateral action is always wrong. That position can be maintained only by people who do not have to make life-and-death decisions. It is cheap and immoral.'

- Charles Moore, cutting to the heart of the matter.

Yes, but...sentence of the week:

'a very large part of the male population, gay or straight, totally understands the idea of anonymous, no-strings sex.'

- George Michael, explaining the need to cruise on Hampstead Heath. Now, I'm fairly sure that I understand the idea of anonymous sex, and even the theoretical attraction. But I can't shake the idea that it would be horribly sordid, clinical and self-indulgent. Sex is not just sex. Maybe I'm just tied up in bourgeois convention. Don't think so, though.

Unlikeliest sentence of the week:

'You could see all these men masturbating in the audience. It was brilliant.'

- Una Stubbs, on the BBC's History of Light Entertainment. Una Stubbs! Una bloody Stubbs!! I'll never think of Worzel Gummidge the same way again.

Funniest photo of the week:

Liverpool, modelling their new kits. Xabi Alonso was posing, elegant and frankly a little camp, one hand on hip and the other resting on Jamie Carragher's shoulder. Carragher, meanwhile, was standing with his hands behind his back, looking as old-school as possible and clearly wishing that he wasn't being used as resting-post for a Basque.

Ah, I love them both. Xavi Alonso: he's so neat.