End of eras - for this year

So the Apprentice and Ashes to Ashes ended. I have to admit I was wrong in both, but that's why I'm not a betting man. As the candidates will call him next year, Lord Sugar (destroying the brand of Suralan) picked Yasmina Siadatan ahead of Kate Walsh, but not it seemed so much for the outcome of the final task, more for his 'gut instinct'. Once he had resolved that Yasmina would not be resentful for leaving her own business, the fact that she was already an entrepreneur and had been there/done that made her an automatic choice. This was despite Kate being as smooth as cream, but never quite having that spark of passion because he had kept herself so controlled. Anyway she lost the final task because, like last season, the losing team let unit costs run away with themselves. Lord Sugar must have liked Yasmina's buy 'em cheap, stack 'em high philosophy, which was first in evidence from the second episode.

Ashes to Ashes had a very good plot twist in the mean, empty streets of London (you wouldn't think eight million people would be such homebodies). The bad guy wasn't out and out bad, just had led a disappointed life he was determined to change. I would have liked Season Two to fade out to the strains of Bowie's Ashes to Ashes, like the first season did, following the model that Life on Mars did for its eponymous song. But there's potentially a nutter gunman out there for Alex in 2008, plus is she in a coma within a coma?
In the last few days, it seems the Met haven't entirely abandoned the ways of Gene Hunt, with allegations of a suspected drug dealer having his head shoved down a toilet which was repeatedly flushed. It's being called torture; Hunt would probably have derided the sissy state. Whether such attitudes are embedded in the police or if really is a case of life deliberately imitating art, is a moot point. All ends up though the court case was abandoned and some officers suspended and other moved to desk duty. Police brutality can't be swept under the carpet anymore.

On a completely unrelated note, move your right foot in a clockwise direction (or if you are left-handed do the same with your left foot), then try to draw a six or and eight in a conventional fashion. You'll find your brian reverses the signal your foot initially had or severely impairs it, as the motion of drawing either sloping digit, is to go in an anti-clockwise direction.