Good news for Jennifer Aniston. She may have been spurned by Bradley Cooper, her co-star in the self-help-manual-turned film, He’s Just Not That Into You, but she has a fan in David Cameron. In an interview this week in Grazia, the women’s weekly magazine, the leader of the Conservative party reveals that given a choice between Ms Aniston and Angelina Jolie the winner would “definitely [be] Jennifer. I’d be afraid that Angelina would want to fight me.”

Over the past few days the Tories have been pilloried for their clumsy use of popular culture references, most particularly comments by Chris Grayling, the shadow home secretary, who said that parts of Britain resembled the deadly streets of US television series The Wire. To which, the satirical website, the Daily Mash, countered, surely Britain is a cross between Desperate Housewives and Boston Legal or perhaps even a really good episode of Stargate SG-1? “Even in deprived urban areas it’s generally My Name is Earl and certainly no worse than the second series of Hill Street Blues.”