February 2013

I had a gay dog: if only David Attenborough knew

My beloved Scruffy  WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY ANIMALS???!!! shrieks Dr Brett Mills of the University of East Anglia, intimating that national treasure David Attenborough is some sort of horrible homophobe with a nuclear family agenda to promote in his wildlife documentaries. All that telly animal porn and not one paw up the posterior, not […]

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Iraq war 10 years on: betrayal of a generation’s political beliefs

Tony and Cherie celebrate the Year of the Snake Last night’s Iraq War debate at Goldsmith’s — sponsored by Huffington Post and featuring Claire Short, Owen Jones, Mehdi Hassan and David Aaronovitch among others — asked “Was it worth it””, generating many outraged tweets and some interesting debate. Tweeted quotes include: Mehdi Hassan — “I

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World’s most expensive everything for the rich: £1000 coq au vin

Are the rich buying these thousand-quid meals with the tax they’ll be saving when the top rate drops from 50 per cent? Or with their gargantuan bonuses? I’ve been banging on about obscene conspicuous consumption for a while now, especially during the increasing attacks on the poor in the midst of a triple-dip recession. We’ve

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