It is very noticable how many Labour MPs, including Shadow ministers, feel obliged to give us their opinions about X-Factor.

You might expect it of a light-weight such as Stella Creasy, or a media manipulator such as Diane Abbott, but Harriet Harman?

Why should such a cerebral and intelligent person bother herself with flim-flam?

Who are Union J?  I have no idea.  Why are they worthy of comment by the political commentariat?