Finally, someone is giving Big Brother the recognition it deserves as the last bastion of democracy in this country. The Hansard Society has just launched a report detailing how those stuffy MPs up in Westminster could learn a thing or two from everyone's favourite reality TV show. The paper, snappily entitled "A Tale of Two Houses - The House of Commons, the Big Brother House and the People at Home", shockingly reveals that BB has a better connection and fuller interaction with the youth audience than modern politics. "Democracy is ultimately unsustainable when the demos is estranged from it," says Oxford Professor Stephen Coleman. Always good to see the big politicos bringing it down to street level. Perhaps the self-styled "promoters of effective parliamentary democracy" should take a hint from Privacy International's latest campaign: worry about the real surveillance problem and watch less television. (Thanks to the Guardian's Backbencher mailout for this one.)