FCUK not forever

As is always likely when Trevor Beattie's involved, the inevitable manufactured controversy is brewing about French Connection's new TV advert in which two women fight for ages and then - oh look - kiss. FCUK are of course slapping themselves on the back for their daringness in a way that didn't happen, as we recall, last March when the very same footage was put on top of Groove Cutters' dance version of Go West's We Close Our Eyes and only helped it to number 33. Not only are the advertising tactics second hand, then, so is the iconography.