David Cameron’s attempt to bring a little greenery to the red-brick villas of west London has run into a spot of nimbyism.

He is getting an Edwardian house in the suburb of North Kensington done up as a family home and wants to stick an eco-friendly wind turbine on the chimney stack.

Now some neighbours, led by Barbara Want, wife of Nick Clarke, presenter of Radio 4’s The World at One, are angry. The offending turbine is not quite one of those 300ft monsters disfiguring the Highlands, but a little number not much taller than the Tory leader himself.

Still, Want believes it ruins a historic area and has objected to the planning application with Kensington and Chelsea council.

She is also unhappy with Cameron family plans to install light wells to brighten a basement they are converting into a bedroom for their son Ivan.

Cameron’s turbine may not be twitching, but Clarke’s political antennae clearly are. The presenter, sensitive to suggestions that BBC lefties were plotting against the Tory leader, just had time to say: “I’ve had all my political opinions surgically removed,” before scarpering clear of the altercation.

Pound sticks his oar in to calm rising Anglo-Scots tensions

For official government help on the thorny political issue of whether Scotland fans should support England in the World Cup, we turn to Stephen Pound, parliamentary private secretary to Hazel Blears. Some critics dismiss Mr Pound as a rent-a-quote, but that belittles his talent in this area: he is at least Lease-a-Quote, and in this case he rose to the occasion magnificently. “If Scotland played Germany in the World Cup then I’d row in behind the f****** Picts,” he said. Warming to the theme, he went on to complain that the Scots were “chippy” and had “imposed half the cabinet on us”.

Isn’t it marvellous the way that football can unite us all?

• Wikipedia, the internet’s do-it-yourself reference work, has been forced to restrict free editing on several controversial items, including the entry for Tony Blair, on the grounds that users can no longer be trusted to tell the truth. There will now be a brief pause while the nation savours that rich irony.

  They may be liberated . . . but they’re not very bright

  Barely a month after Tony Blair backed the fight against animal rights extremists, here is evidence that they might not be as cunning as we all feared. The Animal Liberation Front has just announced that it has liberated 25 red deer from a farm in Potterne, Wiltshire. “We will not let these innocent animals end up on the dinner table,” says the group. Just one problem. Their target has not been a farm for eight years. It’s now a deer sanctuary. “This was not a breeding house for meat in the traditional sense of farming,” says owner Michael Petley, a City fund manager. “This was a herd that was living happily and securely.”

• Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair, is busy writing a biography of Princess Diana and says she’s already finished 50,000 words. At a literary festival at Althorp, Diana’s childhood home yesterday, Tina said that England was now very much like Diana: emotional and obsessed by the media. It shows how times have changed that Tina appears to think this is a compliment.