There was a time when Noel Gallagher was mouthing off to the media several times a day. We assumed he’d mellowed with age – but it turns out he’s just as opinionated as ever. The gobby Oasis star did an interview for a Dutch and Belgian TV show this week – and didn’t hold back when he was asked about his home country. “On tour I miss my girlfriend and my little boy and my daughter,” he said. “I miss watching the football, I miss getting a decent cup of tea. That’s about it, other then that I don’t miss anything. You know England is not that f**king great, as anybody’ll tell you. To live in England is a f**king shithole, to be honest. Well, look at it, f**king dump! People have this romantic image of England, you know. London is a f**king dump. It’s full of crime, it’s full of fucking tourists. It’s traffic, it’s pollution. I don’t even know why I live here to be honest. I live here because the music industry is here.” And he didn’t stop there – he then talked about his bemusement that anyone cares what he thinks. “I often think to myself; who really gives a shit what I think anyway?” he said (hmm, we can see why…). “But if somebody asks me a question I’ve got an opinion on pretty much everything in the world. I’m fascinated as to why people would give a shit what I think of hip hop or what I think of f**king knife crime or Amy Winehouse. Or what I think of Pete Doherty or f**king Elvis Presley or the Pope or Adolf Hitler, who f**king gives a shit for what I think? Well, I tell you why it is; because any f**king rock star you come across that you ask about anything, they come out with that f**king tripe. The same old f**king bullshit. Everything is amazing; ‘What do you think of Amy Winehouse?’ ‘Oh, she’s amazing.’ ‘What do you think of …?’. ‘Oh, it’s amazing, he’s amazing, she’s amazing, that’s amazing. Oh, poor global warming, poor polar bears.’ You know they don’t really f**king think that. I tend to say what everybody else is thinking. That’s what I like to think anyway. I think global warming is brilliant.” We’re exhausted just reading all that but it’s very entertaining. And we have to agree with him on the “everything is amazing” front – we wish more stars would be as opinionated as Noel… although perhaps a little less sweary.