Maybe it's just where I'm standing, but the Live 8 increasing media hype doesn't appear to be translating to the outside world, not due to cynicism but through actual interest in the spectacle. Geldof could, of course, just cancel the whole thing now - everybody's aware (apart possibly from the Star, who lead today on the absence of alcohol sales, but then that's the Star) of Make Poverty History and the G8 summit, even though in the latter case it looks like all the decisions to that end have already been made, so the mission has been accomplished. Maybe this is why attention on the cause is waning - the Times today has a bizarre pictorial bingo card thing that comes with no explanation and features Phill Jupitus for no reason I can work out. Anyway, the BBC is running one of its unreadable big event public blogs.

And still nobody questions the juxtaposition of Bob's claim only the biggest artists are being allowed to play and the Kaiser Chiefs' presence in Philadelphia.