Staff in Cahoots with Looters
Police and customs officers today raided four major museums across the country in the culmination of an operation that has been tracking down antiquities looted from palaces and temples in Thailand. Read more
Intelligent Design
The first step of her clever campaign was to make a video diary in which she explained her intention and her strategy. And so, after she had begun to garrotte her mother with a power cord, and after her mother had abandoned her initial remonstrance - ‘This is not funny’ - to try to attract her husband’s attention and assistance, she would have been satisfied that her plan was unfolding flawlessly. Read more
Where the Streets Have No Lanes
- David Free
Last Christmas I did a Sigrid Thornton and moved out of the city for what I hope is going to be ever. I’d like to say, for the sake of brevity, that I was inspired to do this by the Seachange TV show. But in truth I was more directly motivated by the lyrics of the Creedence song “Lookin’ Out My Back Door.” One day it suddenly struck me that unless I took radical action, I was never going to get to live in a house like the one described by John Fogerty in that song. Read more
She Had Satanic Powers
After confirming last week that four women had been taken into custody and were being questioned in relation to the brutal stabbing murder of a father of five, police have chosen to release further details of the crime. Civil rights groups had protested on behalf of the accused, claiming that prejudicial stereotyping in early police statements had intentionally set the tone for the media coverage that has inflamed public opinion. Answering the charge by referring to two headlines in particular - “Lesbian vampire Killers Slay Defenceless Family Man” and “Bloodsucking Freaks” – the police insisted that they had merely released the facts of the case. Read more