Current Affairs

More and more, it seems, the nutters are taking over the asylum Internet. Take this dispiriting discussion on the Graun’s website. In the first few posts, the Germans are Nazis, the Russians are Soviets, and the Brown Peril (was Yellow) is poised to sweep across Europe, which has been

The firm behind the e.coli outbreak in the US is called Natural Selection Foods.

You’d think there’d be only one answer to the question, “should we destroy the Geneva Conventions?”, but you’d be wrong. The US Congress is debating the issue at the moment, with prominent Republicans like John McCain standing in opposition to the Bush and leadership line. The intellectual

Kung Fu Monkey thinks about the terror threat, and wonders why we are so terrified, when that’s what the other side appear to want. Quote: I am absolutely buffaloed by the people who insist I man up and take it in the teeth for the great Clash of Civilizations

Le Monde reports that Nicolas Sarkozy, llike Steven Byers, would like to be rid of inheritance tax.

Just to show that the Not the Nine O’Clock News sketch was merely ahead of its time, a shocking and shameful story on the BBC news site. Two Asian passengers had to be removed from a Monarch flight from Malaga to Manchester, because some of the passengers refused to

Or is it the People’s Front of Glaswegia? Jilted Scottish Socialist leader Tommy Sheridan ‘may form another party’, according to the BBC.

A reminder for Dick Cheney from chapter 15 of In the year 1487 there was a severe storm in Switzerland, which laid waste the country for four miles around Constance. Two wretched old women, whom the popular voice had long accused of witchcraft, were arrested on the preposterous charge of

An apt cartoon from 1983.

An American church unveils a reimaigining of the statute of Liberty. After all, who needs liberty when you have God (or his worthy ministers) to tell you what to do?