In the latest example of the prudish power of the USA’s rampant Phalliban, outraged residents of Kaiser, Oregon, have demanded the removal of some newly installed safety pillars. Apparently, they are too reminiscent of male genitalia. What a load of bollards. Although I’m no expert on American penises, I’ve seen… Read More »Pillars of the Community – the Phalliban Pops Up Again
…asks OUT in a preamble to an interview with the falsetto pop singer who dodges labels: The musician, whose debut single, “Grace Kelly,” earned him comparisons to Freddie Mercury, has made a fine art of dodging the question of whether he’s gay, straight, or something in between, but the more… Read More »‘Is Mika just the 21st Century version of Morrissey?’
Excuse me, but who is our Prime Minister? No, really, who is he? Yesterday I saw a dour looking Scottish geezer who looked like he’d spent too long working in the basement of a bank give a painfully awkward speech outside Number 10 about the changing need for change and… Read More »Gordon Who?
The Times of London argues, in a lengthy and quite serious piece by Matthew Syed, that David Beckham deserves a knighthood not so much for being a great footballer but rather for being ‘the prime catalyst in the metrosexual revolution.’ So, Becks deserves to be awarded the highest honour in… Read More »Arise, Sir David – and Show Us Your Legs
Mark Simpson on why size matters in the privacy of the voting booth Dame Democracy is a bit of a size queen. Actually, she’s a lot of a size queen. The vital statistics she’s really interested in are not the size of the money supply or the rate of inflation,… Read More »Dame Democracy is a Size Queen