The ain’t-love-grand story of the day comes beaming at us from The Sun, who kindly update us on the heart-warming tale of Sharon and Paul Osborn. Paul listed his “cheating, lying, adulterous s**g of a wife” (mmn, nice) on eBay, after thinking he’d discovered her having an affair with a work colleague. Posting a photo of her picking her nose and giving details of her mobile number, he then let the glories of the internet work their magic. Unsurprisingly, thousands of hilarious LOLS o’clock-style emailers then sent it round the world, to the massive amusement of precisely no one.

Gratifyingly, Buckinghamshire rozzers have taken a dim view, arresting and cautioning Mr Osborn for “sending an offensive, indecent, obscene and menacing message”. Mrs Osborn meanwhile, recorded a message to tell random callers (who one can only assume have rather clear diaries) that she was “no longer listening”.

Now then, while lyin’, cheatin’ peoples of both sexes are clearly no-good, one can’t help but remember a fusty old book what is called The Scarlet Letter. For listing your wife on the internet, while no doubt fostering a thoroughly un-cosy sense of bitter revenge, seems a rather modern incarnation of branding your beau with a great red A. Factor in the phone messages left for Mrs Osborn, the huge number of charmless comments posted on news sites regarding her appearance and, worst of all, the fact that Mr Osborn has two children, and this not only seems desperately and regressively puritan, but hugely depressing to boot. Wedding bells, anyone?