The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that drilling for oil in one family's back garden is becoming ever more common, then we learn that followers of Hugo Chavez are terrorising the elderly residents of a tranquil Gloucestershire village every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack followers of Hugo Chavez terrorising the elderly residents of a tranquil Gloucestershire village was George Osborne who today said Waterboarding is not torture.