Tomalak Geret'kal

Children as young as five should be taught to understand the pleasures of gay sex, according to leaders of a taxpayer-funded education project. Hmm.

Gordon Brown has finally spoken up loudly and jumped on the anti-Russia bandwagon with chafing hypocrisy.

Reasonably predictably, Vladimir Putin is suggesting that the United States government played a significant role during the recent conflict in Georgia, a former Soviet state. But I am starting to think that there is a little more to this than the usual slant.

The BBC has published a few striking images of people with the oft-mentioned disease known as leprosy.

According to Diane Kochilas, "offering a sip of something that is sanctioned culturally, religiously and even scientifically in the Mediterranean is hardly akin to setting a child on the path to alcoholism." In this article I briefly consider why that may be.

This week, following a statement from the Information Commissioner's office that such information is "clearly a matter of public interest", a breakdown of some MP expenses were finally released by the Commons speaker, Michael Martin.

One might wonder why our absent-minded politicians get a free four-course meal with wine and champagne (financial contributor unknown) with the Queen (and her French counterpart President Sarkozy, who actually does something, with his beautiful wife), and up to £750 for a free TV without even having to declare their expenses. Gordon Brown softened it [...]

Apparently the classic fairytale of Three Little Pigs is now "too offensive", and the use of pigs raises cultural issues to the extent that the story should be excluded from important Government events.

The BBC has done good job of censoring that old Christmas favourite, Fairytale of New York. Tipped to make Christmas number one this year, the word "faggot" is being bleeped out on radio for the first time in the song's 20-year history.

As the end of the year approaches, with offices closed for the holidays, decorations up, cruises canceled and early bargains coming online, there are all sorts of interesting things to talk about.