25/02/2004 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Binman

Mrs Rodríguez opens her front door, walks down the street to the large public waste container, jacks open the lid with her foot, and screams in terror as a very dirty man inside reaches to take her bags. Who needs state-run recycling?

rosetta, stoned

Orthodox history has for long held that the Rosetta Stone is a celebration of Greek colonialism in North Africa. No longer, for Shaheen Abou-Alfoutouh has now proved conclusively that, according to some laws he just invented but hasn’t written down yet, and because there are already enough sailors in Athens called Rosetta, the British Museum…