  The existence of the monopole condensation transition reported by
  Kocic et al. in non-compact, quenched QED is tested. No phase transition is
found. This shows that divergence of the `monopole susceptibility' introduced
by Hands and Wensley is not a reliable indicator of second order phase
transitions. In view of these results
  I discuss claims that the chiral phase transition seen in QED with fermions
is a lattice artefact driven by monopole condensation.
