The ‘Dog Days’ of August are nearly upon us. Parliamentary gossip will dry up. Press releases from helpful celebrity PRs will be rarer than hen’s teeth as they all take off for their holidays.

But what

iDave’s Big Society is up and running. All those doubting Thomas’ who said it would never happen; people were too selfish, too dependant on the Nanny State, there was no community any longer….

OK, it’s not

A DRIVER was left baffled after receiving a £30 fine for playing music too loudly on his car radio.

Christopher Cureton, of Seacombe, was listening to the rock band The Killers’ hit, Human, as he drove

To help economies develop across Africa, he said nations needed to increase access to broadband internet, which he said less than 1% of people currently had access to.

Gordon Brown added:

“I am already working with

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It’s not, not something you see every day:

Dog wanted me to have sex with it – accused

By Shellee Geduld

A Cape Town man has appeared in court for allegedly having sex with his neighbour’s poodle.

Anthony Julies appeared in the

This is the United Kingdom 2010. ‘Walking the dog’ is no longer the low-tech activity it used to be.

If you are lucky enough to avoid the marauding transvestites intent on introducing your Pekinese pooch

From the Telegraph:

Transvestite had sex with a dog at English Heritage castle
A transvestite had sex with a dog in the moat of an English Heritage castle.

The cross-dressing man was caught with the animal in the dry moat of

“They put on their headphones, drape a hood over their head and drift off into the world of ‘digital highs’ called i-Dosing.

Oh dear, what you going

It was dark and stormy night in 1726. Tobias Muddlestick bent over the leather bound ledger, dipped his quill in the ink, and carefully inscribed the words ‘Received 6d’. He paused over the words heading

I hate the men who would prolong their lives
By foods and drinks and charms of magic art
Perverting nature’s course to keep off death
They ought, when they no longer serve the land
To quit this life, and

On Friday, the High Court gave permission for a judicial review of the government’s failure to hold a public inquiry into the UK’s alleged complicity in the torture of a large number of civilians.

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Is an hour too long to wait in an emergency? Can passion survive the wait?

In an age when the Pizzeria guarantees your appetite will be sated within ten minutes of your call, I wonder at

You really, really, need to go HERE to read this image in all it’s glory.

A quite brilliant effort from The Poke reducing the Daily Wail’s secret editorial formula to a map of the moral underground.

This is a piece

My sister-in-law once famously arrived here for a week’s holiday with six packs of Waitrose prunes in her luggage.

She has never lived it down – this part of the Dordogne is bang in the centre