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Monday, January 30

Jenni Russell:

"We buy goods not because we need them, but because we wish to maintain our status. We are in a competition for stuff with other people that can never end".

Jacques Peretti:

"In today's "supersize-me" consumer society, here is the paradox. Men need bigger cocks, and a penis of any size is now physically possible. Consequently, no size is ever going to be big enough".

Madeleine Bunting
:

"What place will equality have in this brave new world? What place will privacy have when brain imaging can read our thoughts and transcranial magnetic stimulation can manipulate our thoughts? What powers over our brains will the state demand in the war against terror?"

What we need, of course, is a Penis Czar, whose mission it is is to stamp out this gross inequality. We could maybe even do with a National Penis Service, guaranteeing equal penis sizes to everyone in society, particularly the young, the vulnerable, and the disabled, making the Great British Penis the envy of the world. If it saves one life...