Razorlight are among 50 British artists who are opposing plans to modernise the UK's nuclear weapons. Which is interesting, because sometimes when I hear Razorlight total nuclear oblivion suddenly seems quite attractive. Only joking, I should stop all this Razorlight dissing, because I don't actually mind them all that much. I only do it to get in Mary CMU's good books. She hates them. And if I slag them off at least once a week, she shouts at me less for forgetting to run stories we've promised PRs we'll run.
Anyway, Razorlight have joined the likes of Snow Patrol, Thom Yorke, Bloc Party and Ian Brown to sign a statement issued by good old CND that opposes plans by that Tony Blair fella to spend lots of cash updating the UK's nuclear arsenal. The statement calls for politicians to strive for "peace and justice, not nuclear weapons and war".
Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke adds that spending billions on "nukes" will just bring us closer to "global catastrophe", while Ian Brown says that political leaders are "hypocrites and warmongers". The statement and the pop stars' comments come ahead of an anti-Trident demo due to be held in London this weekend.
Of course in this day and age the challenge isn't so much keeping up with our enemies' nuclear arsenals, and more keeping up with their seemingly infinite supply of would be suicide bombers. Perhaps if we could recruit some suicide bombers of own we could get rid of the nukes. I suggest planet pop puts forward Razorlight for that cause. Oh damn, there I go again.