If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that's undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.

I try to appreciate the simple things. I've just been camping with my son and I enjoyed that just as much if not more than a holiday in a posh hotel. I like making a cup of tea and bacon sarnie in the morning.

But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like "Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!"

"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?

Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit

The way we live in the West we live like kings. People moan about this and that in Britain but we have running water, electricity, security and a rule of law and so many people in the world don't have these.

Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.