Here's one to really get old Shriver's goat:

The extra-terrestrial estate agent who describes himself as Lunar Ambassador to the United Kingdom is offering the Moon at £20 an acre, and plots are selling faster than Mars Bars at a UFO rally.

For £19.99 you can have an utterly meaningless deed and map showing where your future home might be, on either the Moon, Mars or Venus. The company, Moon Estates is a kind of UK franchise of a US business set up after the worst scumbag to ever besmirch the name of capitalism took advantage of a legal loophole allowing an individual to claim "ownership" of planets. Currently, the potential population of the moon is greater than Iceland, and the fact that property lawyers are united in dismissing the whole idea as bunkum isn't discouraging idiots (in America, George W Bush is said to own a plot) from making Moon Estates boss Francis Williams a rich man. (The company apparently brings in more than £1 million a year.) The whole thing's so hideous - such an insult to nature - that I'd, personally, rather be poor. Read the whole story, here, in the Telegraph.