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Is One incredible man. As a lad growing up in the eighties I can't believe the turnaround in his 'career'. Has there ever been any other 'British' subject who has so divided opinion? Thoughts?

My good friend Mav (whom I haven't seen for ages and am seriously overdue a pint and some scoff with) always refused to get public transport on the basis that "he didn't travel with the great unwashed". Now it appears he was right all along . . . . . . . (From BBC News) "More than one in four commuters has bacteria from faeces on their hands, an investigation suggests. Scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine swabbed 409 people at bus and train stations in five major cities in England and Wales. The further north they went, the more often they found commuters with faecal bacteria on their hands - men in Newcastle were the worst offenders. Experts stressed the importance of hand hygiene for preventing illness. The bacteria found suggested people were not washing their hands properly after using the toilet, said the researchers. In Newcastle and Liverpool, men were more likely than women to show contamination - 53% of men compared with 30% of women in Newcastle and 36% of men compared with 31% of women in Liverpool. We were flabbergasted by the finding that so many people had faecal bugs on their hands Dr Val Curtis, director of the Hygiene Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine In the other three cities - London, Cardiff and Birmingham - the women's hands were dirtier. People who had used the bus had higher rates of hand contamination than those who had used the train. Manual workers had cleaner hands than other professionals, students, retired people or the unemployed. BBC NEWS | Health | Faecal bacteria join the commute Dirty bastards . . . . . .