Slavoj Zizek, the scruffy, sweaty, sibilant Slovenian: is he any good? He is quite entertaining. I first came across him when he presented a programme called The Pervert's Guide to the Cinema, which was not what I expected. I expected it to be all the best bits from X-rated films, but insteasd it was a psychological examination of various famous film classics. He used Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo as an example of how realizing a dream does not make a dream come true, but turns it into a nightmare. I am not sure about that now I have written it down, but anyway, it was quite an entertaining programme. He also provided the inspiration for this entertaining RSA animate, in which he quotes Oscar Wilde. I was surprised when I turned on YouTube this afternoon to see him speak for three minutes in a commercial. He was talking about freedom. It was the only YouTube commercial I have not skipped as soon as I could, but I wondered what he was actually advertising. It turned out to be The Guardian.