Rage Against the Machine are the Christmas No.1

purplefog, I'm sorry for ever doubting (which I did, quite a lot) :) Even being aware of the incredible irony of someone having got millions of people to buy a song to make a point against millions of people buying a different song, you've got to admit this is hilarious.

The X Factor usually has about... three million hours, it feels like, of TV, huge promotion and almost complete inevitability on its side. Rage Against the Machine had a song that was released 15 years ago, and a Facebook group. The power that Internet campaigns are getting would truly be quite frightening if it were to be turned to anything useful.