If Lilly Allen wanted to make sure that she'll never set foot in the US again (or, if "never" is too strong a word for you, let's put a friendly spin on it and say "not for a very very very long time"). Now, don't get nasty and start believing that someone who's got it in for the British pop singer decided to finally set a ban against annoying, photographer-assaulting young women (in this case, they'd have had to find a safe dark corner to stash Britney into a long time ago) and forbid them to set foot in the States. Like I did. No, not even close. It's just...a fact.

So, for better or for worse, Lily's revoked US working visa stays the way it is, and Lily vents her frustration in front of her unsuspecting audience. And this is what came out of her mouth during her performance at England's V Festival last Saturday. "This next one" she said before she sang "Everything is Wonderful", "is about people who are awkward on the train, U.S. immigration officials and George Bush in general. Who else can f**k off? People who edit fashion magazines... that makes us ladies feel awful. We're all beautiful - it's the heroin addict models who've got the problem".

Now, as I see it, there are two separate sides to this. First of all, for someone who wants to keep her career floating and can't afford things like not being allowed to set foot in the States, it's kind of a bad bad thing insulting Mr. Bush, although we have to admit she's not the first and definitely not the last to do it. But I'll be damned (sorry, it just slipped 'cause I'm all Lily Allen-hyped at the moment) if I understand what president Bush and Lily's US ban have in common. That's one thing. And then there's the whole 'you're beautiful' act - that is, the second side I was talking about earlier. I couldn't agree more about the fashion magazines who show us lovely photos of our male and female idols - the only (slight) problem being that they've got as much truth in them as a News of the World exclusive interview with the Loch Ness Monster (I wonder if I'll be banned from entering the UK for this - hope not). But Lily managing to slip that comment into a sentence that also contained an insult aimed at the US president and a cliché "I love you all, we're all beautiful" thing to top everything - gotta hand it to her, she's got some stomach. Maybe she should consider a career as a politician - now there's a thought, Lily, how 'bout it?