Teach them well and let them lead the way

This week at work I have been sitting near a cell of teenage work experience girls. It is a fascinating, if occasionally alarming, insight into the future of our country.

This afternoon they were discussing the physical transformation of Cheryl Cole, from girl-next-door pretty at her first Popstars audition to lustrously-eyelashed, Disney-heroine pretty on The X Factor. Under particular scrutiny were her teeth. 

'Oh yes,' said one assertively. 'She's had dentures.'