AND WE DON'T CARE

John Lydon has jetted back into the UK from his palatial LA home (perhaps enjoying a cheap holiday in other people's misery) and come over all controversial, claiming that the UK is "mediocre" - and who better to talk of mediocrity than John, judging by the last 28 years of his 'career'?

The wild-eyed anarchist, who has re-formed the cartoon punks of the Sex Pistols again for some filthy lucre, was speaking at a press conference when he became predictably outraged and (yawn) outspoken.

"I've been away a few years and it gets more and more mediocre here. It's now coffee shops and wine bars and you can't smoke anywhere," he said, sounding like a participant on BBC2's 'Grumpy Old Punks'. See, the man who rhymed 'anti-Christ' with erm... 'anarchist' has lost none of his verbal trickery.

One journalist quite rightly pointed out that it's easy to moan about a country when you don't live there anymore (for tax reasons) at which point John unleashed the spirit of '76 and called down the gods of anarchy by throwing a microphone at the hack.

"I'm not moaning. I'm telling you, I'm out of here. You, you fool, you think cos I come from here I've got no right to comment cos I've gone elsewhere. You are still here and you ain't changed."

Yeah! Take that, you corporate shill! Rotten is still sticking it to The Man, and he's as angry as hell!

By the way, Johnny was in town for the launch of the computer game 'Guitar Hero III'. How's that anarchy thing working out for you these days, Johnny?