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Today in Web Monitor; why police want to bash bankers, why fake hair gets politicians annoyed and how staying still isn't that bad. Share your favourite bits of the web by sending a link via the letters box to the right of this page.

• The outing of the Spanish prime minister's two daughters as goths has been buzzing round the internet after they were photographed with their father and President Obama. that the State Department's account on the photo sharing site Flickr included the image of the Obamas with Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and his teenage daughters, who are not allowed to be photographed to protect their privacy.

One person who wasn't given the privacy of these girls In Meghan McCain. She knows what it feels like to be advised on what to look like whilst your politician dad is trying to look serious but you are a teenager 'going through a phase'. The daughter of ex-Republican nominee for President, Senator John McCain to leave the goths alone, her adolescent style choices were inspired by the Spice Girls. As she got older things didn't get much better much to the annoyance of the her dad's advisors:

"On the night my father accepted his nomination for president, I wore a giant Madonna ponytail extension (circa her Vogue tour)-- much to the dismay of some of the campaign advisers, I might add."

• Promoting his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, that he was surprised the police didn't hassle him while filming:

"When we were filming Capitalism, I was stringing yellow crime scene tape around the New York Stock Exchange and I saw the police coming. I thought, 'Oh, boy, here it goes, they're going to take me away.' I said to them, 'Guys, I'll be done in a couple minutes. It's just for comedy. I'll clean it all up.' And the cops said to me. 'It's OK, Mike. Those guys inside the Stock Exchange lost a billion dollars of our police pension fund. Keep doing what you're doing.'"

• Jonathan Aitken is better known as the former Tory cabinet minister whose dramatic downfall in a prison sentence for perjury. But in Radio 4's The House That I Grew Up In, Aitken explains he already had experience of incarceration. When he was four he caught tuberculosis off his Irish nanny and spent three and a half years in Dublin hospital.

"In my case the cure was total immobilisation - which meant being in a frame and plaster cast and steel devise. The purpose of which was to immobilise me... It sounds like a terrifying prospect to have to lie completely still in a plaster cast and iron frame and be strapped down for three years but actually disabled children get used to it. I had good life on that frame, not an unhappy life and it just seemed normal and natural at the time."

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