When Peter Pan was forced out of Neverland for being a little miscreant shit it was inevitable that over time he would grow up, morph into a man resembling Robin Williams for a short silver-screened period, before eventually keeling over and dying in mysterious circumstances.

Much in the same vein, the forced eviction of Michael Jackson from his Neverland Ranch, in California, following his file for bankruptcy back in 2005, was the beginning of the end for the ‘King of Pop’.

From the very first moment that both Pan, and Jackson left their respective comfort zones, their destinies was irreversibly fucked. The similarities however, don’t end there.

Jackson, much alike Pan, spent the majority of his days interacting with mermaids, ‘lost boys’, indians, fairies, pirates and the California state justice department. But, none of these friendly foes proved to be in any way contributing to his untimely downfall just yesterday, at the age of 50.

Following a stunt that has provided him with the capacity to immortalise himself more than any silly number of dates at the O2 arena ever could, the jury is once again out on Jackson – although this time not in a Santa Clara courtroom. Whatever way the musician is remembered by society, one thing’s for sure: there is a very thin line between race-changing, sexy-children-chasing, baby-dangling freaks, and musical legends these days. A very thin line.

In other, almost insignificant news – during a day very good for covering up geopolitical bad behaviour – North Korea successfully launched its first nuclear missile towards somewhere,  and America gifted the transitional UN-backed Somalian government with a titanic degree of arms, ammunition and ‘tools of death’, to help bring stability to the war-torn African nation.

Perhaps messrs Kim “Smooth Criminal” Jong-il and Barack Obama should sit down together, have a long, hard listen to “Earth Song”, and think about what they have just done.