Independent Online Edition > Europe: “Just as Germans were starting to feel bored by their election campaign, a little-known anarchist party has outraged television viewers with a no-holds-barred political broadcast featuring bare-breasted women, raucous partying and alcohol-fuelled vandalism. The German Anarchist Pogo Party (APPD), whose defiant proclamation that ‘Arbeit ist Scheisse’ (‘Work is shit’) contrasts…

Alcohol Ads Fuel Young Adults’ Drinking: “The more ads young people see about alcohol, the more they drink. “ “Well, hurrah” sez marketing, advertising and boozing industry, supping aplenty.“Well, boo” sez health gurus and Right-thinkers all over, supping aplenty.

Quote from some radio 4 wildlife programme. “Predation is good for the herd because it weeds out the weaker members of the species.” Sounds like a justification for a psycho-killer movie to me. Actually, I heard some dreadful shlock on Radio 4 last presented by Judith Hann, who stopped being a TV presenter because the…

Some ballet shop in Marylebone has this special freak in the window.

Nick sings the Star Wars theme in a lounge style One of my regular reads, the website at the end of the universe, has done a fantastic update on Star Wars kitsch, including Bill Murray singing the Star Wars theme, lounge-lizard style, and citing the Chewbacca Defense (South Park’s Eddie Cochran citing the fact that…