07/05/2007 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Creative cartography

I rather like the idea of going up the M6 one day and finding an elephant where Manchester used to be.

Ignore them and they’ll go away?

Against all the considerable odds, in November the new anti-nationalist party, Ciutadans, won three seats in the regional assembly. So how much time was devoted to it by the nationalist-run regional telly station in January? Six seconds.

Monstrous hairy-legged spider poised to attack

Sorry but it’s the only photo of Sarkozy I could find this morning. And who says a spider won’t rule France one day? This sounds like a chimpanzees’ charter.